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#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well

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The Two Stages of Model Training and Application

There are two stages in the process: training and applying the model/nThe training stage requires a significant amount of computation/nApplying the trained model requires less computation/nThe training process may use as much compute as a human brain has available/nIt is uncertain whether the training process matches the computations done by a human over their lifetime/nEstimates for compute requirements used various possibilities as anchors

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