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The speaker says AI research depends heavily on generalization, whose occurrence—including out-of-distribution generalization—is difficult to predict.
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“The whole field relies a lot on generalization and it's very hard to predict when you're going to get generalization or when you're going to get some kind of out of distribution generalization.”Play from 9:42Report a misattribution
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