Clarification: GPT Models Cannot Autonomously Do End-to-End Training Yet
scaling01 · x · 2026-07-10
Addressing claims that GPT models can autonomously perform end-to-end post-training or research, the blogger expressed skepticism. They believe that while models can indeed accelerate internal work, they currently cannot achieve fully autonomous end-to-end R&D; human researchers are still needed to provide core ideas, with models merely assisting in specific tasks like building evaluators or setting up multi-agent games.
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