Programs often achieve their fitness function in unpredicted ways, something Altman learned as a student in the Stanford AI lab.
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Specific personal experience as a Stanford AI lab student is known mainly to Altman himself.
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Sam Altman, “Programs often achieve their fitness function in unpredicted ways, something Altman learned as a student in the Stanford AI lab.” (said February 2015). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_ba787f102977, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ba787f102977
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