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The speaker thinks it is probable that a sequence of reinforcement-learning environments could produce an AI researcher at least as capable as a human researcher.
Unidentified speaker · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“like yes there's probably like a ladder of rl environments that is possible to construct such that you would get a ai researcher which is at least as good as a human researcher but the effort to climb”Play from 1:01:14Report a misattribution
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