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The speaker thinks much apparent learning in animals is brain maturation and that animals engage in very little reinforcement learning.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“and a lot of what looks like learning is actually a lot more maturation of the brain and i think there's actually actually very little reinforcement learning for animals”Play from 9:35Report a misattribution
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