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r/MachineLearningPublished: Oct 13, 2026, 06:00 JST

/u/Repulsive_Twist_9221 asks: can next token prediction plus reinforcement learning reach general intelligence?

/u/Repulsive_Twist_9221 asks: can next token prediction plus reinforcement learning reach general intelligence?

A poster on r/MachineLearning, /u/Repulsive_Twist_9221, asked for the strongest mechanistic case that next token prediction plus reinforcement learning can produce open-ended general intelligence — not trend extrapolation, and not appeals to future discoveries.

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