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The speaker considers mathematician–AI researcher collaboration valuable because AI researchers alone may lack the knowledge of mathematical excellence needed to design a good reward function.

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“and I think this is a good combo because if you are just like AI researchers,”
“you actually don't know what makes a mathematician good,”
“then there's no way that you can come up with a reward function well.”
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