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Gwern

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What Gwern said.

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01 / evaluation

Afterwards, when pushes into big reinforcement learning efforts kind of all fizzled out—like post-Dota, as the reinforcement learning wasn't working out for solving those hard problems outside of the simulated game universes—then I started thinking, “Okay, maybe we kinda overshot there…” But then GPT came out of nowhere and basically erased all that.

“Afterwards, when pushes into big reinforcement learning efforts kind of all fizzled out—like post-Dota, as the reinforcement learning wasn't working out for solving those hard problems outside of the simulated game universes—then I started thinking, “Okay, maybe we kinda overshot there…” But then GPT came out of nowhere and basically erased all that.”
Speaker
Gwern
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

07 / evaluation

I thought it was ludicrous to suggest that simply because there’s some supercomputer out there which matches the human brain, then that would just summon out of nonexistence the correct algorithm.

“I thought it was ludicrous to suggest that simply because there’s some supercomputer out there which matches the human brain, then that would just summon out of nonexistence the correct algorithm.”
Speaker
Gwern
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

08 / evaluation

I had been a little bit interested in Bitcoin, but not too seriously interested in it because it was not obvious to me that it was going to work out, or even was technologically feasible.

“I had been a little bit interested in Bitcoin, but not too seriously interested in it because it was not obvious to me that it was going to work out, or even was technologically feasible.”
Speaker
Gwern
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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