OpenAI Researcher: Sample Efficiency and Continual Learning May Upend Backprop Paradigm

An OpenAI researcher told Dwarkesh Patel that while major labs squeeze more from the backpropagation paradigm, advances in sample efficiency and continual learning could disrupt the field within 1-2 years.

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