Check the gap to reality
Will success in simulation transfer to real work?
The discussion examines the difficulty of transferring simulated success to complex real-world tasks.
John Schulman · Beren Millidge · Charlie O’Neill
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What does this actually establish?
| Source status | Publisher chapter at 00:45:24 · Not an independently verified outcome |
|---|---|
| Speaker context | Researchers from Thinking Machines, Zyphra and Baseten · a debate, not a consensus forecast |
| What remains open | A simulation gap can vary by task; it does not show that all benchmarks are useless. |
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Two ways this could unfold
More representative environments could improve transfer. Unmodeled constraints may still require separate validation.
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