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The process amounts to continual learning within an AI lab, using environments and RLHF-like methods to distill the previous three months of AI research progress into the model.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“It's just again, this is basically continual learning within the AI lab of distilling the last three months of AI research progress through environments and like RLHF type stuff back into the model itself.”Play from 30:29Report a misattribution
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