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The speaker says reinforcement learning's limited effect on model parameters also constrains how much it can change a model.
Unidentified speaker · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“space and so like it kind of just like tweaks it in this very very very small like loss value to like get it into the right point but that also then limits what you can do with RL like how much you can actually change the model without”Play from 56:45Report a misattribution
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