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The guest says reinforcement learning is intended to produce goal-oriented software capable of creatively pursuing goals.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And then RL, the whole point of RL is to create goal oriented.”
“beings you know software that can creatively pursue goals like that's the whole output of an RL training run and they're creatively pursuing goals much like very ambitious aggressive power-seeking humans creatively pursue their goals and so they're just structural analogies here that make it silly to not talk about agents as having motives and goals and like you said”Play from 53:57Report a misattribution
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