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The speaker argues that a system that only predicts the next token indefinitely is not very intelligent in some respects.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“But I think creativity eventually has to connect to metacognition. If you just robotically predict the next token no matter what forever,”
“I would argue you're not that intelligent along some of those spaces.”Play from 1:22:44Report a misattribution
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