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Jun 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can AI Learn on the Job? RLVR, OPSD, and Dreaming for the Next‑Gen Training Paradigm

The article examines Dwarkesh Patel’s view that future AI must move beyond one‑off pre‑training to continual, on‑the‑job learning, discussing Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), the need for "grindable" tasks, and emerging approaches like on‑policy self‑distillation (OPSD) and "dreaming" to write real‑world experience back into model weights.