John Schulman on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come…
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Pre-training, post-training, and future capabilities
00:17:21 Plan for AGI 2025
00:29:43 Teaching models to reason
00:41:14 The Road to ChatGPT
00:52:37 What makes for a good RL researcher?
01:01:22 Keeping humans in the loop
01:15:39 State of research, plateaus, and moats
Links:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-schulman-openai-cofounder-reasoning-rlhf-plan/id1516093381?i=1000655679622
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ivzHH9RWciXe4O1rKtldf?si=53503781e05f4d8f
Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/john-schulman/
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