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Alexander Mattick says energy-based models appear widely because many models can be framed that way, making the label less useful as a description.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“they show up everywhere. Because if you want to, you can phrase it as an energy based model. And that makes it oftentimes a less useful description.”Play from 34:55Report a misattribution
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