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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.”Play from 14:42Report a misattribution
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