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The speaker says models trained to solve short tasks can transfer the learned strategy to tasks eight to thirty times longer when the longer tasks are effectively the same program.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“yeah they're learning how to solve”
“these types of problems at a certain length and it turns out that when you take this strategy that they learned it is directly transferable to the longer length like they're effectively the same program and this is something that is really exciting because what this kind of implies is that when you have a corpus of data or environments that you train your model on the hope is that like”
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