Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI Director and founding member of OpenAI, has expressed concerns about the potential pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches in achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Reinforcement Learning Is A Lot Worse Than The Average Person Thinks
In a recent podcast appearance, Karpathy delivered a blunt assessment of RL, highlighting its limitations despite enabling breakthroughs in AI capabilities, such as AlphaGo and ChatGPT's conversational abilities.
Author's summary: Karpathy critiques RL's limitations in achieving AGI.