Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp

In the early days of OpenAI, @johnschulman2 didn't think next-token prediction was going to lead to intelligence, because it would get swamped by noise. He explains it's always been hard to apriori predict what techniques will elicit out-of-distribution generalization. https://t.co/S1X44ugNYy

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