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Tom McGrath believes that specifying rewards correctly is very difficult.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“everything inside this is actually discovered as a result of gradient descent we're just trying to shape that better and i think this is where the sort of the sort of base disagreement with which certain might come in where like i think it is very hard to specify rewards correctly”Play from 34:47Report a misattribution
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