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Tom McGrath says the process's internal structures are discovered through gradient descent, while the team tries to shape the process more effectively.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026
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“everything inside this is actually discovered as a result of gradient descent we're just trying to shape that better and i think this is where the sort of the sort of base disagreement with which certain might come in where like i think it is very hard to specify rewards correctly”34:47Report a misattribution
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