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Karpathy argues that reinforcement learning incorrectly treats every step in a successful trajectory as a good action, even though some steps may have been mistakes.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So basically, it kind of almost assumes that every single little piece of the solution that you made that arrived at the right answer was correct thing to do,”
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