language models
3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2025 by Ben Mann · across every show →
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Jul 20, 2025 positive
Mann: Language Models Understand Human Values in a Core Way
“And since then, my estimation of how hard the problem would be has gone down significantly actually because things like language models actually do really understand human values in a core way. The problem is definitely not solved, but I'm more hopeful than I …”
Nov 16, 2025 neutral
Li: Robotics trails LLMs because training data lacks 3D physical actions
“In in language, because they have this perfect setup where their training data are in words, eventually tokens, and then they produce a model that outputs words. So you have this perfect alignment between what you hope to get, which we call objective function,…”