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David Krueger–Coordination, Alignment, Academia

The Inside View

CHAPTER

The Importance of Deep Learning in the Field of AI

Alex Nett and Ilya Satskivir's text generating RNN are like the things that sort of got me into the field. I was watching these, uh, Jeff Hinton course error lectures and you showed those things. And this was like the first thing that I saw that looked like it had the potential to scale to AGI in some sense. So then I applied like in 2012 for grad school and started in 2013. But you needed to be at least like in the field of AI to kind of see those signals right.

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