Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

<p>New episode with my good friends <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/_sholtodouglas?lang=en">Sholto Douglas</a> & <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/trentonbricken?lang=en">Trenton Bricken</a>. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, both at Anthropic.</p><p>We talk through what’s changed in the last year of AI research; the new RL regime and how far it can scale; how to trace a model’s thoughts; and how countries, workers, and students should prepare for AGI.</p><p>See you next year for v3. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuuTTnjxMQ">Here’s last year’s episode</a>, btw. Enjoy!</p><p>Watch on <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/64lXQP6cs5M">YouTube</a>; listen on <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381?i=1000709488338">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3H46XEWBlUeTY1c1mHolqh?si=b645971b1af546fa">Spotify</a...