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Adam Marblestone

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01 / belief

First of all, I think the probabilistic AI people would be like, of course you need test-time compute, because this inference problem is really hard and the only ways we know how to do it involve lots of test-time compute.

“First of all, I think the probabilistic AI people would be like, of course you need test-time compute, because this inference problem is really hard and the only ways we know how to do it involve lots of test-time compute.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

04 / belief

What I think we should do is we should describe the brain more in that language of things like architectures, learning rules, initializations, rather than trying to find the Golden Gate Bridge circuit and saying exactly how this neuron actually… That’s going to be some incredibly complicated learned pattern.

“What I think we should do is we should describe the brain more in that language of things like architectures, learning rules, initializations, rather than trying to find the Golden Gate Bridge circuit and saying exactly how this neuron actually… That’s going to be some incredibly complicated learned pattern.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

05 / belief

I think you either have to have special cell types or you have to somehow otherwise get special wiring rules that evolution can say this neuron needs to wire to this neuron, without any learning. And the way that that is most likely to happen, I think, is that those cells express different receptors and proteins that say, “Okay, when this one comes in contact with this one, let’s form a synapse.

“I think you either have to have special cell types or you have to somehow otherwise get special wiring rules that evolution can say this neuron needs to wire to this neuron, without any learning. And the way that that is most likely to happen, I think, is that those cells express different receptors and proteins that say, “Okay, when this one comes in contact with this one, let’s form a synapse.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

08 / belief

There might be other ways of learning, energy-based models or other things like that, that you can imagine that is involved in being able to do this and that the brain has that. But I think there’s a version of it where what the brain does is crappy versions of backprop to learn to predict through a few layers and that it’s kind of like a multimodal foundation model.

“There might be other ways of learning, energy-based models or other things like that, that you can imagine that is involved in being able to do this and that the brain has that. But I think there’s a version of it where what the brain does is crappy versions of backprop to learn to predict through a few layers and that it’s kind of like a multimodal foundation model.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

11 / belief

I think if AlphaZero, and model-based RL and all these other things that were being worked on 10 years ago, had been giving us the GPT-5 type capabilities, then I would be like, “Oh wow, we’re both in the right paradigm and seeing the results a priori.

“I think if AlphaZero, and model-based RL and all these other things that were being worked on 10 years ago, had been giving us the GPT-5 type capabilities, then I would be like, “Oh wow, we’re both in the right paradigm and seeing the results a priori.”
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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