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Andrej Karpathy suggests that fine-tuning models with reinforcement learning may be analogous to basal-ganglia function.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So maybe, for example, there's a basal ganglia doing a bit of reinforcement learning when we fine tune the models on reinforcement learning.”Play from 20:26Report a misattribution
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