Reading up on John Schulman
2 deep · digging since dec 18, 25
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
AI researchers contend that recursive self‑improvement is still far off, hampered by generalization limits, difficulty defining objectives, and alignment challenges rather than raw compute scaling.
- John Schulman on dead ends, scaling RL, and building research institutions - YouTube
OpenAI researcher John Schulman discusses reinforcement learning scaling, LLM usefulness milestones, and lessons for building AI research teams.