Prime Intellect resident poses the RL frontier problem: how do you reward unverifiable knowledge work?
xeophon · x · 2026-11-03
In a post amplified by xeophon, pattyiceberg frames the core RL training problem he's tackling at the Prime Intellect residency: in high-value knowledge work, 'nothing is deterministic or verifiable.' Even when the math checks out and citations are real, there's no clear ground truth for whether professional work is 'right' — making reward design for unverifiable tasks a key bottleneck for extending RL beyond code and math.
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