Opinion: RL training drives model evolution like environmental events
Sauers_ · x · 2026-08-28
The tweet posits that RL training isn't evolution itself but environmental events driving it. It compares Anthropic's RL to a forest fire and OpenAI's to a flood, forcing adaptation. Open models like Llama 3 and Qwen face higher variation, specializing into sub-species. The author calls for evolutionary biologists to study model ecology.
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