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I believe Karpathy was referring to this paper as the paper that set OpenAI off course for years

@karpathy @BldrInvstTech Why did OpenAI decide that RL was The Way for a while?

@rubinovitz @BldrInvstTech It’s hard to understand now, the Atari RL paper of 2013 and its extensions was the by far dominant meme. One single general learning algorithm discovered an optimal strategy to Breakout and so many other games. You just had to improve and scale it enough. My recollection of the…

Andrej Karpathy

I believe Karpathy was referring to this paper as the paper that set OpenAI off course for years

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1857980896776990830