David Pfau Retweets Nostalgia for Classical AI
DeepMind researcher shares a post contrasting earlier AI methods with modern scaling approaches.
David Pfau, Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, retweeted text from @henrycstllo that states preference for older AI such as AlphaGo, mutual information methods, and the EM algorithm. The post contrasts those with newer practices described as scale GPUs, no solid rules, and GPT-2. The retweet appears among public posts on X with no further statements from Pfau in the packet.
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David Pfau Retweets Nostalgia for Classical AI
DeepMind researcher shares a post contrasting earlier AI methods with modern scaling approaches.
David Pfau, Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, retweeted text from @henrycstllo that states preference for older AI such as AlphaGo, mutual information methods, and the EM algorithm. The post contrasts those with newer practices described as scale GPUs, no solid rules, and GPT-2. The retweet appears among public posts on X with no further statements from Pfau in the packet.
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henry castillo@henrycstlloi miss the old ai the alphago ai mutual info ai em algo ai i hate the new ai scale GPUs ai no solid rules ai gpt-2 ai i love the stats ai boost and bootstrap ai affine y hat ai no sandbox hack ai
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