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Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware.

Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said

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scaling laws Whether more compute keeps buying more capability, and where the curve now bends -- pre-training, post-training, test-time.

reinforcement learning Training by reward: environments, verifiable tasks, value functions, and whether it works or merely beats what came before.

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What Andrej Karpathy actually said

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  1. Andrej Karpathy

    Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla

    So that's why I kind of call pre-training this kind of like crappy evolution. It's like the practically possible version with our technology and what we have available to us to get to a starting point where we can actually do things like reinforcement learning and so on.

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