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falcor84 on Sept 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models

I can't help but feel that saying "it's just RL" is like someone at the start of the 20th century saying "it's just electricity", as if understanding the underlying mechanism is the same as understanding the applications it can enable.

dartos on Sept 13, 2024 [–]

Tbf RL is pretty incredible.

I trained a model to play a novel video game using only screenshots and a score using RL and I discovered how not to lose

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