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A function-space perspective interprets increasing model parameters as approaching the target function space, rather than necessarily as harmful overparameterization.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“From a function point of view, you say, well, no it's not over-parameterised, I'm just going closer and closer and closer to the actual true function space I'm fitting to.”
“A a a p uh a function with just say a billion parameters is much much closer than a function with fifty parameters to being at this like infinite uh scaling domain.”Play from 1:13:25Report a misattribution
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