Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
The episode explores the current frontiers of AI with Lucas Kaiser, co-author of the Transformer paper, focusing on whether reasoning alone enables true generalization or if new architectures are needed. While current models like Codex have revolutionized productivity, especially in codin
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