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Around 2015, the speaker and others typically expected AGI to emerge through reinforcement-learning agents trained on video games.

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“go back to like 2015 and I think the way people typically thought,”
“including myself, thought that we'd get to AGI would be kind of like the RLN video games thing that was happening.”
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