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Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a Stanford audience that a generation of researchers slowed AI progress by underestimating the power of scaling, citing OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence.

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At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence.

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