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AI research can use highly measurable goals, such as achieving a loss of 1.3 that no human can currently achieve.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“I mean, I feel like in AI research, especially it's very easy to define like goals, which like, you know, you could say like the loss needs to be like 1.3 or something and like no human can get that now.”Play from 31:23Report a misattribution
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