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AI models can be highly sample-efficient in some regimes, including in-context learning.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“Yeah, I would say there's like models are today's models are weaker than humans in a lot of different ways, and some of them might have to do with sample efficiency in a certain regime where I mean, in some regimes models are very sample efficient,”
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