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The speaker highly doubts that a startup's work five years from now will qualify as an energy-based model under the current understanding, even if it is labeled one.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“If you don't use a if you use them for instance as a pre training task, I don't see a reason why not. I I don't see a reason why you should but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work. The the question really is is if we end up looking like let's say like uh like it's a we we jump forward five years from now and LaCour's startup is doing whatever he he did, like they are doing currently research. Whether what they end up doing like they might still call it energy based models, but whether it's actually an energy based model”
“As you and I would be thinking about this right now,”
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