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Richard Sutton

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In the old days, it was interesting because things like search and learning were called weak methods because they’re just using general principles, they’re not using the power that comes from imbuing a system with human knowledge.

“In the old days, it was interesting because things like search and learning were called weak methods because they’re just using general principles, they’re not using the power that comes from imbuing a system with human knowledge.”
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Richard Sutton
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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What is intelligence? The problem is to understand your world. Reinforcement learning is about understanding your world, whereas large language models are about mimicking people, doing what people say you should do.

“What is intelligence? The problem is to understand your world. Reinforcement learning is about understanding your world, whereas large language models are about mimicking people, doing what people say you should do.”
Speaker
Richard Sutton
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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You can’t have prior knowledge if you don’t have ground truth, because the prior knowledge is supposed to be a hint or an initial belief about what the truth is.

“You can’t have prior knowledge if you don’t have ground truth, because the prior knowledge is supposed to be a hint or an initial belief about what the truth is.”
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Richard Sutton
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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Your examples are all, “Well, really you have to” because you can teach it, but there’s all the little idiosyncrasies of the particular life they’re leading and the particular people they’re working with and what they like, as opposed to what average people like.

“Your examples are all, “Well, really you have to” because you can teach it, but there’s all the little idiosyncrasies of the particular life they’re leading and the particular people they’re working with and what they like, as opposed to what average people like.”
Speaker
Richard Sutton
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
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