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At level one, improvement is measured using downstream tasks, not by directly measuring whether the inner loop improves the outer loop's self-improvement capability.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“like a way to measure it like we measure it on a collection of downstream tasks but we didn't measure how good it is improving its capability of improving itself does the inner loop found by the outer loop actually can become a better outer loop and that's the what we call the level two”Play from 9:49Report a misattribution
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