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For a machine learning task aiming to reach a target training loss twice as fast, intermediate progress makes it possible to recognize when the task is halfway complete.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“Whereas if your goal is to, for example,”
“get to some training loss, you know, 2x faster,”
“you can kind of see when you're halfway there.”Play from 8:48Report a misattribution
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