Exciting Research Frontiers
Pieter shares his enthusiasm for exploring the concept of play in reinforcement learning, drawing parallels to unsupervised pretraining in other domains. He also discusses the surprising success of using pretrained transformers as universal computation engines across different modalities, highlighting the potential for general pattern recognition.In this clip
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