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The research agent takes a metric and a problem as inputs and hill-climbs toward solving the problem.

Tim Scarfe · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sep 2026

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“And it's very,”
“very simple. You give it a metric,”
“you give it a problem and it will hill climb towards that problem.”
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