What Aravind Srinivas thinks about mental models

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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1. 19 Jun 2024

   Our readingSpending most of the compute memorising the world in pre-training is brute force; what we want is a model that reasons the way a student sits an open-book exam.

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   Their wordsI think there’s an interesting thought experiment here that, we’ve been spending a lot of compute in the pre-training to acquire general common sense, but that seems brute force and inefficient. What you want is a system that can learn like an open book exam.

   ↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording