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In the speaker’s scenario, deployed experience across the economy eventually becomes the main source of AI improvement, surpassing pre-release training.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“By this point, the main way that AIs get better is not from the training they have received before they are released to the public.”
“Rather,”
“it's from all this experience that they'll be accumulating from being broadly deployed in the economy and engaging in so many different kinds of tasks.”Play from 19:08Report a misattribution
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