The Mystery of Loss Functions: It's Deep Voting
iamtrask · x · 2026-08-22
The author predicts that solving AI control will reveal that the peaks and valleys in loss functions are not the magic of linear algebra, but rather algebra holding a mirror to millions of people in the training data. It is highly non-linear statistics, or "deep voting".
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