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The speaker thinks an AI often performs poorly at a task because its training environment did not train it to perform that task.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“and if you're wondering why hasn't the ai done this ask yourself like did the training environment train it to do this and often the answer is no and often i think that's a good explanation for why the ai is not good at it because”
“like it wasn't”
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