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Current AI development involves applying large amounts of compute to large datasets and training environments, then experimenting with the resulting systems to assess their capabilities.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“just throwing giant blobs of compute at giant data sets and training environments and then toying out or playing around with them afterwards and seeing what they're good at you know um but”Play from 1:05:17Report a misattribution
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