Debate: Does lowering pretraining loss alone lead to AGI?
lambdaviking · x · 2026-08-05
Scholars debated Gwern's essay on large language model pretraining on X. The core controversy is whether continuously optimizing the loss function during the pretraining phase naturally leads to advanced intelligence. Some argue the essay focuses heavily on driving progress by decreasing loss rather than building external architectural layers on top of the models.
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