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Capability does not generalise for free: a model that will move mountains on an agentic task still tells the same bad joke it told five years ago.

Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said

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reinforcement learning Training by reward: environments, verifiable tasks, value functions, and whether it works or merely beats what came before.

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  1. Andrej Karpathy Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
    So even though the models have improved tremendously and if you give them an agentic task, they will just go for hours and move mountains for you. And then you ask for like a joke and it has a stupid joke. It's crappy joke from five years ago and it's because it's outside of the it's outside of the RL.

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