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Richard Sutton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

You know, if you really could just get information from anywhere and bring it into your central mind, you could become more and more powerful.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

And it's all digital and they all speak some internal digital language.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

Maybe it'll be easy and possible, but...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

it will not be that easy, as easy as you're imagining, because you can lose your mind this way.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

If you pull in something from the outside and build it into your inner thinking, it could take over you.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

It could change you.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

It could be your destruction rather than your increment in knowledge.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

I think this will become a big concern, particularly when you're, oh, he's figured all about how to play some new game or figured out he studied Indonesia and you want to incorporate that into your mind.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

Yeah.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

So you think, oh, just read it all in.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

And that'll be fine.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

But no, you've just read a whole bunch of bits into your mind.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

And they could have viruses in them.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

They could have hidden goals.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

They can warp you and change you.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

And this will become a big thing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

How do you have cybersecurity in the age of digital spawning and reforming again?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

Yeah, so I do think succession to digital or digital intelligence or augmented humans is inevitable.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

So the argument, I have a four part argument.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Richard Sutton โ€“ Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end

Step one is,