4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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RLVR could make an AI competent enough to undertake real-world work, including off-distribution projects, provided it can learn from experience.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“This is the crucial thing that RL VR has given you, an AI that is at least competent enough to start getting some real-world experience if it could learn from it. And once you have that, you send it out into the world to do real work,”
“even on projects that are off the training distribution.”
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