Dan Klein
Scaled Cognition
1 episode on Chain of Thought
Dan Klein is the co-founder and CTO of Scaled Cognition and a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, where he leads the NLP group and won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. On Chain of Thought he explained why LLMs are plausibility engines rather than truth engines, and how his team built APT1 for under $11 million.
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And that's why even if you could make this work, it's still better to have a model that in its natural operation doesn't make the mistake in the first place. And that's absolutely one of the advantages of APT1 is it gets it right in its natural operation rather than after seven other models have signed off.
Why LLMs Are Plausibility Engines, Not Truth Engines | Dan Klein