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The speaker considers it unlikely that AI will remain limited to benchmark performance by persistent simulation-to-reality problems, because reinforcement learning already shows some generalization in practice.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“to incorporate into an environment but like there's still some persistent like sim to real which is somehow blocking everything i think this is kind of unlikely i think we do actually see this kind of generalization even from RL in practice already but”Play from 1:26Report a misattribution
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