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Richard Socher says reward engineers still need to work much more carefully because AI systems generally do not yet reliably distinguish intended meaning from literal wording.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“But what I think it shows is that we're currently in this sort of state of AI.”
“where the reward engineer still has to do a lot more careful work and where the AI in most cases is not very good yet at understanding what is meant versus what is being said.”Play from 9:40Report a misattribution
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