OpenAI Staff Question Chat Format, Imagine a World Without RLVR

OpenAI's Will DePue and Nat Friedman discussed why the wow factor of AI experiences has faded—models aren't funny, can't interrupt, and can't edit messages—while antimatter15 mused that without the o1/RLVR breakthrough, voice interaction would be more mature and AI funnier, though less capable.

2026-09-22 ~ 2026-09-22 · 4 related posts

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• OpenAI researchers imagine the counterfactual world where o1/RLVR was never discovered — willdepue · 2026-09-22
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