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Episode 25: Nicklas Hansen, UCSD, on long-horizon planning and why algorithms don't drive research progress

Generally Intelligent

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Do You Have a PhD in Computer Science?

When you entered college, did you know that you wanted to work on AI? Not at all, no. I've just stumbled into research. When I came to college, I didn't even know research was a thing that you could be paid basically to learn and just tinkle with things. For your thesis, you did your generalization in visualization in RL. What were some of the ideas they were starting to develop at that time and then how they transition to where they are now during a PhD? It's actually quite surprising because a lot of people they think about self-supervised models when they think about working on AI or MLResearch.

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