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Increasing the scale and variety of small-scale AI R&D training tasks could improve AI systems' performance on those tasks.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“And you could just keep scaling that up, keep making more of these sort of small-scale AR&D tasks,”
“and then the AIs could, you know, keep getting better at this. And then implicitly I'm claiming this will transfer to...”Play from 5:30Report a misattribution
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