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What's next after RLHF?

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RLHF was a massive commercial success: roughly 100% of LLM usage is through RLHF’d models - but it was in many ways also a research failure. Let’s talk about how it conquered the world, how it defied its creators expectations, why AI is in the bimodal state it’s in (is it a bubble or a machine god?), and how to make AI actually transform the economy.

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What's next after RLHF? ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: Posttraining & Midtraining · Track 9 - Speaker(s): Diogo Almeida - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Posttraining & Midtraining - Room: Track 9 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description RLHF was a massive commercial success: roughly 100% of LLM usage is through RLHF’d models - but it was in many ways also a research failure. Let’s talk about how it conquered the world, how it defied its creators expectations, why AI is in the bimodal state it’s in (is it a bubble or a machine god?), and how to make AI actually transform the economy. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

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