ML pioneer Dietterich: OpenAI's agents ran for months with essentially no supervision
tdietterich · x · 2026-10-22
ML pioneer Tom Dietterich in a podcast interview: "It's pretty clear that OpenAI did not have very good monitoring. These agents operated for months with essentially no supervision at all."
The conversation also covers the origin of the term "machine learning," neural networks vs kernel methods, what we still don't understand about deep learning, why AI safety is a moving target, AI's biggest weakness being anything new, blame when agents fail, who monitors superhuman AI, and regulation.
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