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The Second Half – Shunyu Yao – 姚顺雨

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tldr: We’re at AI’s halftime.

The Second Half tldr: We’re at AI’s halftime. For decades, AI has largely been about developing new training methods and models. And it worked: from beating world champions at chess and Go, surpassing most humans on the SAT and bar exams, to earning IMO and IOI gold medals. Behind these milestones in the history book — DeepBlue, AlphaGo, GPT-4, and the o-series — are fundamental innovations in AI methods: search, deep RL, scaling, and reasoning. Things just get better over time. So what’s suddenly different now? In three words: RL finally works. More precisely: RL finally generalizes. After se

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