Episode 37: Rylan Schaeffer, Stanford: On Investigating Emergent Abilities And Challenging Dominant Research Ideas Generally Intelligent podcast

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Episode 37: Rylan Schaeffer, Stanford: On investigating emergent abilities and challenging dominant research ideas

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Rylan Schaeffer is a PhD student at Stanford studying the engineering, science, and mathematics of intelligence. He authored the paper “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”, as well as other interesting refutations in the field that we’ll talk about today. He previously interned at Meta on the Llama team, and at Google DeepMind.

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