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Continual learning should preserve the base model’s existing knowledge, making limited parameter changes valuable.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“And this is a very important property for continual learning because as you're learning on the job,”
“we don't want to overwrite and forget all the other things that the base model knows.”14:42Report a misattribution
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