Why does it matter?
Faster AI research would let the leading lab improve models much faster than normal human teams could.
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With the help of thousands of Agent-2 automated researchers, OpenBrain is making major algorithmic advances. One such breakthrough is augmenting the AI’s text-based scratchpad (chain of thought) with a higher-bandwidth thought process (neuralese recurrence and memory). Another is a more scalable and efficient way to learn from the results of high-effort task solutions (iterated distillation and amplification). The new AI system, incorporating these breakthroughs, is called Agent-3.
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