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The speaker suspects that subtle, hard-to-diagnose bugs are a major cause of failures in large training runs, based on rumors.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“seems to me that a big source of why these big train lines have failed, at least from rumors,”
“is just like very subtle bugs that are really hard to track down.”Play from 36:53Report a misattribution
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