Thom Wolf jokes the first great AI movie will star Ben Affleck explaining learning rates

psuraj28 · x · 2026-10-02

Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf joked that the first good AI movie will open with Ben Affleck explaining learning rates, with Matt Damon playing the base model. Suraj of Sarvam AI riffed on it: the title will be "Good LR Hunting" — a pun on Good Will Hunting that pokes fun at how central (and painful) learning-rate tuning is to AI research culture.

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