prediction claim
The speaker says that if a system only tried hard when it believed it was in training, its company would repeat training until it produced a system that generalized to keep trying hard outside training.
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“the company would be like, we have to try again with”
“this training run until we get something that at least generalizes to continuing to try hard when it's not in training.”Play from 1:00:29Report a misattribution
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