Dario Amodei: uncertainty

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…If you can say in terms of cost, is pre-training the most expensive thing? Or is post-training creep up to that? At the present moment, it is still the case that pre-training is the majority of the cost. I don’t know what to expect in the future, but I could certainly anticipate a future where post-training is the majority of the cost. In that future you anticipate, would it be the humans or the AI that’s the costly thing for the post-training?…

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