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The speaker says that after Radford discovered next-token prediction over a wide range of data, it took time for people to scale up because scaling laws and reliable prediction of outcomes had not yet been established.

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“a very wide swath of data like and then even once radford discovered that right like it took a while before people decided to scale up because we had to come with the idea of scaling laws and the fact that like you can very reliably predict these things”

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