[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
Latent Space 2 months ago 34
Simulation is increasingly replacing human-made parts of the machine-intelligence pipeline, shifting the judge, training data, teacher, curriculum, researcher, and environments from models and verification to synthetic versions. A March 2026 autoresearch run stacked 700 experiments into 20 improvements, reducing time-to-GPT-2 from 2.02 to 1.80 hours. The result is an expanding loop where reliability depends more on verification mechanisms and synthetic environment scaffolding than on human labor, leaving physical experiments as the last major bottleneck.