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EfficientZero would probably outperform a novice human after each receives two hours with an unfamiliar Atari game simulator.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“So if this model and a human both got two hours to play against a simulator of an Atari game that they hadn't seen before,”
“this model would actually probably beat the novice human.”Play from 16:01Report a misattribution
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