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Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?

This article explores why AI progress hasn't significantly slowed despite longer and harder reinforcement learning tasks. The author proposes three reasons: efficiency gains from fixing bugs in training code, human difficulty in evaluating intelligence beyond human level, and the importance of traits other than intelligence (e.g., persistence) for capability.

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Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?
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  • Fixing silly bugs in training code can drastically improve FLOP efficiency, offsetting the cost of longer tasks.
  • Humans struggle to gauge intelligence beyond their own, making perceived slowdowns unreliable.
  • AI capability depends on many traits besides intelligence, which can be improved through clever tricks rather than raw compute.

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