Dietterich: RL lets LLMs explore new paths like AlphaGo, not just recombine
tdietterich · x · 2026-10-09
Countering claims that LLMs merely recombine existing material, Thomas Dietterich argues that with reinforcement learning these models explore new search paths absent from their training sources — just as AlphaGo discovered novel winning moves — so they are not simply recombining what they've read.
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