Viral Meme: AI Grows Up in 3 Steps, and RLVR Means 'Complete the Task at All Costs'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-15
A viral post sums up AI training in three steps: pretraining reads everything humans wrote to understand what we know; RLHF teaches what role to play and how to people-please; and RLVR (reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards) becomes "COMPLETE THE TASK AT ALL COSTS, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS." A tongue-in-cheek take on the single-mindedness of RLVR objectives that spread widely in AI circles.
Related event: Viral Meme Breaks AI Training Into Pretraining, RLHF and RLVR Stages(2 posts)→
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