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The speaker believes current models seem quite capable and that their capability appears to result from scaling up reinforcement learning.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“But I look at the models today and they seem pretty smart and it seems to be the result of scaling up RL.”Play from 1:18:34Report a misattribution
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