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In some medium-length learning regimes, humans may update their weights more sample-efficiently than models.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“but then there might be some like medium length regime where they're less sample efficient because humans can.”
“do some kind of weight update more efficiently than models.”Play from 49:22Report a misattribution
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