Jules Jacobs: you only need AI development itself as an RL environment
JulesJacobs5 · x · 2026-08-29
In a thread on whether AI progress could stall, kuza55 raises two bottlenecks: running out of capital for compute and running out of data, questioning whether everything can be turned into an RL environment. Jules Jacobs replies that perhaps only AI development itself needs to be an RL environment — pointing at recursive self-improvement rather than wrapping every task.
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