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The speaker says AI has made substantial progress in interpolation but has not solved extrapolation, and characterizes much of the progress as interpolation rather than extrapolation.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“I would say that a lot of it is sort of interpolation rather than extrapolation. We haven't solved the extrapolation problem, but interpolation, we made huge progress.”Play from 1:40:19Report a misattribution
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