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Karpathy says reinforcement learning is used despite its flaws because earlier methods were much worse and relied on imitating people.

Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025

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“It just so happens that everything that we had before it is much worse because previously we're just imitating people.”
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