What Dario Amodei thinks about reinforcement learning

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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1. 13 Feb 2026

   Our readingRL environments exist to make a model generalise, not to teach it each skill one at a time — exactly as pre-training does.

   scaling laws

   Their wordsthe goal is not to teach the model every possible skill within RL just as we don't do that within pre-training, right? Within pre-training, we're not trying to expose the model to, you know, every every possible you know, way that words could be put together, right? You know, we're it's it's rather that the model trains on a lot of things and then and then it reaches generalization across pre-training, right?

   ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 3rd of 29 in this recording