Atari games

part of Atari

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 17, 2017 by Wojciech Zaremba · across every show →

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May 17, 2017 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Zaremba: RL models need three years of real-time play to learn games
“Well, for instance, in terms of real-time execution, it takes something around three, three, three years of play to learn to play simple games . I mean it, it can be hugely parallelized, therefore it takes a few days to train it on current computers”
Wojciech Zaremba May 17, 2017 ▶ 6:24 An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026 bearish
Insight
Chollet: RL Benchmarks Like Dota and Atari Test Memorization, Not Intelligence
“If you look at Atari games, for instance, or even Dota, you're training on, on the same environment as what you use for testing. So effectively, you're just trying to memorize the best strategies. You're trying to at training time, explore the full space of po…”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 33:08 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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