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The speaker says energy-based models can be applied where generation is unnecessary, but they can still generate samples; sample generation is so expensive that people do not do it.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“The interesting thing is you can maybe use them in settings where you don't need to be generative, but fundamentally you are still generative. Like you still can generate samples. It's just very expensive to know.”
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