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John Schulman

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

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Can Language Models Tell Us When They Don't Know What They Know?

Can these types of agents tell us when they don't know something or is that a hard problem? I'd say sort of if you ask a question that's kind of in the core of, uh, the models knowledge, it will know. The training objective strongly incentivizes the model to be calibrated - meaning it has a reasonable estimate of it. It doesn't feel like a insurmountable problem, but there's some practical difficulties to gettingThere.

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