Thom Wolf jokes: the first good AI movie opens with Ben Affleck explaining learning rates
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-10-02
Thom Wolf, author of transformers, jokes that the first good AI movie would open with Ben Affleck explaining how to fine-tune — "freeze the base weights first, learning rate 2e-4" — with Matt Damon playing the base model. The bit riffs on Karpathy disappearing from X.
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