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The speaker says next-token-prediction-only language-model training would not learn the desired interesting capabilities.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“So just training a language model on next token prediction just wasn't going to learn the interesting things you wanted to learn.”Play from 8:51Report a misattribution
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