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A possible obstacle to recursive AI progress is that model weight updates appear much less sample-efficient than human learning.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026
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“But the one reason why that might not happen is in terms of like weight updates,”
“the sample efficiency of weight updates, they just seem way far behind humans,”46:39Report a misattribution
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