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The speaker likens training AI only in RL environments to educating a brilliant student with classroom case studies but no real internship.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“We've got some genius grad student who's never been allowed to take a real internship,”
“and we keep giving it more and more classroom case studies in the form of RL training on environments.”Play from 8:15Report a misattribution
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