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The speaker says current LLMs lack an equivalent of active reflection and reconciliation during learning, and that implementing such a process remains a research problem.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“and by manipulating that information that you actually gain that knowledge and i think we have no equivalent of that again with other lumps they don't really do that but i'd love to see during pre-training some kind of a stage that thinks through the material and tries to reconcile with what it already knows and thinks through for like some amount of time and gets that to work and so there's no equivalent of any of this this is all research there's some subtle”
“Very subtle that I think are very hard to understand reasons why it's not trivial.”Play from 50:44Report a misattribution
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