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Large language models start in exactly the wrong place, because they try to get by without a goal and therefore without any sense of better or worse.

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  1. Richard Sutton

    Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning

    The scalable method is you learn from experience. Um you uh you you try things, you see what you see what works. No one no one has to tell you. First of all, you have a goal. So without a goal, uh there's no sense of right or wrong or better or worse. So large language models are trying to get by without having a goal or a sense of better or worse. That's just, you know, it's exactly starting in the wrong place.

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