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gradient descent

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 3, 2025 by François Chollet · across every show →

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Jul 3, 2025 negative
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Chollet: Gradient descent requires 3 to 4 orders of magnitude more data than humans
“Gradient descent requires vast amounts of data to distill simple abstractions. Many orders of magnitude more data than what humans need. Roughly three to four orders of magnitude more.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 24:13 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026 negative
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Chollet: Gradient Descent Fails at Reasoning by Defaulting to Pattern Matching
“You could not really get Gradient descent to encode sort of like reasoning style algorithms. It was not because the models could not represent these algorithms. It was because gradient descent could not find them, right? So the problem was that it wasn't about…”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 14:11 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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