4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
opinion claim

The speaker suggests that open-endedness might be addressed by running models indefinitely, generating data at very high throughput, and having agents search for meaningful findings, but is unsure whether this approach is sufficient.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“find like the hidden gems and like the solution to open-endedness really just letting models run forever and like finding like just doing data gen just doing super super super high throughput data generation and then like asking agents to go through and like”
“and like fine meaningful things like i'm not sure maybe maybe that's sufficient you know like that would be that'd be cool”
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