Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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AI has come a long way, but I would argue that the current most popular direction in the field, scaling with human generated data, is misguided. If we really want our agents to scale, we need to focus on how they will learn from their own data. This means creating reinforcement learning (RL) agents that are efficient enough to learn from a single, embodied stream of data.

Outline
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - The problem with the field
3:13 - The runtime learning perspective
7:24 - Point 1
9:31 - Point 2
12:26 - Point 3
14:30 - My research

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Sources:
Andy Barto's talk: youtube.com/watch?v=-gQNM7rAWP0