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As seen in: Dwarkesh Podcast, Apple Podcasts, AI Supremacy, Substack, On Substack, Freethink, ai-supremacy.com, Tsecurity.de, Series Tea
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Eric Jang: The $10K AlphaGo Rebuild That Exposes AI's Mathematical Trap

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By Dwarkesh Patel, Jang’s project arrives, Jang argues
| BigGo
Eric Jang, the former VP of AI at 1X Technologies and a veteran of Google DeepMind, spent his sabbatical doing what no one else in AI leadership seems to have time for: he rebuilt AlphaGo from scratch for under $10,000. His conclusion, delivered on the Dwarkesh Podcast, is both profound and deeply inconvenient for the industry: the algorithms that taught a machine to master Go are fundamentally more efficient than the trail-and-error math powering today’s large language models.
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Eric Jang - Building AlphaGo from scratch

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By Dwarkesh Patel
| dwarkesh.com
Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools. Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play. You have to go back to 2017 to get insight into how the more general AIs of the future might learn.
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Blog prize for big questions about AI

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By Dwarkesh Patel
| dwarkesh.com
There has never been a time where excellent intellectual output on the right question has been more valuable or more urgent. Compelling answers can inform the most important economic and foreign policy decisions that will ever be made, the deployment of (at least) hundreds of billions of philanthropic dollars, and the training and governance of superintelligences. I’m announcing a $20,000 blog prize in order to find people who will excel at researching and thinking through these problems.
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