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Training AIs for tasks such as building businesses, winning court cases, profitable trading, or election campaigning requires real-world interaction that cannot be reproduced entirely in a data center.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“How do we train an AI to get really good at building a business from scratch?”
“How about winning court cases or having a profitable day of trading in the markets or helping a candidate win an election?”
“The rollout here requires interacting with the real world,”
“and you can't recreate it from just within a data center.”4:51Report a misattribution
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