Dwarkesh on Richard Sutton
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Dwarkesh Patel shares insights on Richard Sutton, a pioneer in reinforcement learning, sparking discussion on his contributions to AI research and its future implications.
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pbd
3 months ago
1 replyRL researcher says LLMs won't work, LLM researchers say RL won't scale. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just shipping products with whatever actually works today. This is like watching database academics argue about ACID properties while MongoDB just took over the world.
RamtinJ95
3 months ago
The db example is bad because most people in db and data world agree mongodb is not a great choice anymore. In fact mongodb today has actually adopted a lot of the characteristics of a sql db.
whatever1
3 months ago
1 replyThis was painful to watch. Dwarkesh was worse than a clueless interviewer.
JuniperMesos
3 months ago
I didn't have this impression at all. Dwarkesh came across as knowledgeable enough about the subject and with enough confidence and energy to ask meaningful, challenging questions of an expert. There was some real and productive disagreement and I think this made for a more interesting podcast than most.
paulpauper
3 months ago
Seems like every AI podcast can be summarized by "we don't really know what will happen, and we don't know what it means for a machine to be able to think"
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