Exploring Scaling Paradigms in AI Research: From Pre-training to Co-innovation

Karina, an AI researcher at OpenAI, explores two scaling paradigms in AI research that have unlocked new product research opportunities and discusses the future of AI agents as collaborators and co-innovators.

1. Karina is an AI researcher at OpenAI, previously working at Antarctic for 2 years on cloud projects.
2. She will discuss scaling paradigms in AI research and their impact on product development.
3. There are two main scaling paradigms in recent AI research: next token prediction (pre-training) and reinforcement learning with Chain of Thought.
4. Next token prediction is a "world building machine" - models learn to understand the world by predicting the next word, which helps them learn physics, problem solving, and logical expressions.
5. Compute scaling in pre-training is crucial for handling complex tasks like math problems and creative writing, which require more computational resources due to their inherent difficulty.
6. Creative writing poses unique challenges because it's hard to measure good writing and models may struggle with plot coherence in long stories.
7. Post-training techniques refine pre-trained models for specific tasks by teaching them how to complete function bodies, understand docstrings, generate multi-line completions, and predict diffs.
8. Scaling reinforcement learning on Chain of Thought allows AI to solve complex problems by spending more time thinking through issues during training.
9. The model's trustworthiness is a challenge in real-time interaction with models that require time for research or code generation; addressing this can help create better collaborative tools.
10. Design challenges include finding the simplest form factor for unfamiliar capabilities and bridging real-time interaction with synchronous task completion.
11. Modular composition of product features will allow better scaling as models develop higher capabilities.
12. Personalized tutors can adapt to individual learning preferences, making education more accessible and tailored to users' needs.
13. AI has the potential to help co-create new knowledge and research, such as reproducing scientific experiments or GitHub repositories.
14. The future of AI interaction will involve less clicking on internet links and more model-lens access, providing personalized multimodal outputs based on user intent.
15. AI interfaces should adapt to users' needs and intents, such as an IDE-like interface for coding or a writing assistant that creates tools for brainstorming, editing, and plot development in real-
16. Co-innovation with highly reasoning agents will enable new novels, films, games, and scientific knowledge creation through collaboration.

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