OpenAI's original hypothesis about scaling came not from intentional testing but from observing that increases in compute led to consistent performance improvements in Dota, which pulled the team toward the scaling hypothesis.
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Greg BrockmanEvidence Quote
“A lot of people think, 'ah, they were out to prove the scaling hypothesis,' but actually the other way around, our goal was actually just to run out of room on the existing algorithms so we could do new algorithm development.”
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