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For AI training to make rapid progress in a domain, the domain must be not only verifiable but also highly grindable.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“is the fact that the models are exposed to far less high quality multimodal data during pre-training. But one reason that I think is actually quite underrated by people and which I think reveals the canyon walls against which this river of AI progress will only slowly chip away at is that it is not enough for a domain to be verifiable.”
“It also has to be very grindable.”
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