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The speaker says models perform better on a task when trained directly on that task.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“So we know that if you train on the task you care about,”
“you're going to do better.”Play from 9:52Report a misattribution
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