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Karpathy says that scaling training can wash away some dataset noise and leave some signal.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“um somehow when you do it at scale the the noise washes away and you're left with some of the signal um so data sets will improve a ton it's just everything gets better so um”Play from 1:04:25Report a misattribution
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