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A hypothetical dream command would spend substantial compute building and training in a game-like simulation of the model’s real-world observations.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“you hit forward slash dream.”
“And this incinerates huge amounts of compute to build and train against a video game version of what the model is witnessing in the real world.”Play from 17:13Report a misattribution
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