Beren Millidge

What Beren Millidge has said on podcasts

17 statements

1. on AI generalization and continual learningNegativeSep 11, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

   Failure to generalize meta-learning and continual learning could block transformative AI.

   “if it is just ridiculously hard to generalize meta-learning, plus we don't solve continual learning, it's just super hard and impossible”

   Listen at 1:37

   Open the episode · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
2. on AI capabilities versus human performancePositiveSep 11, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

   AI systems are already close to crossing human-level capability on relevant performance measures.

   “we're already pretty close, in my opinion, to where we'll start crossing the human Elo score”

   Listen at 6:46

   Open the episode · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
3. on Recursive self-improvementNeutralSep 11, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

   Rapid recursive self-improvement depends on AI systems learning their own objectives reliably.

   “how well can AIs generalize to learning their own objectives”

   Listen at 13:39

   Open the episode · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

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• Sep 11, 2026AI researchers debate the path to recursive self-improvement and AGIDwarkesh PodcastSep 11, 2026Guest
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