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Many solutions that satisfy contrastive objectives by grouping the right examples and separating others are not useful.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“And kind of contrastive just means when it's somehow the right things have to be together and somehow everything has to be apart. This means there are many,”
“many, many solutions which actually satisfy this condition,”
“but are not actually useful.”Play from 36:54Report a misattribution
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