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Even if in-context experience makes AIs highly capable, those gains would be temporary and wasted unless the learned information can be incorporated into model weights.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“And even if after enough in-context experience the AIs can become like Henry Ford or Robert Einstein,”
“all that would be ephemeral and wasted if you couldn't get those learnings back into the weights.”Play from 7:39Report a misattribution
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