Equation 6 · Part 1 · The Main Technical Approaches to AI Alignment, Compared
Symbol C
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C is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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C is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
a judgment conditioned on a written constitution C rather than on an anonymous rater’s unstated standards. Lee and colleagues tested this substitution directly at scale and reported that AI-generated feedback achieved comparable performance to human feedback across summarization and dialogue tasks, and that a direct variant skipping the intermediate reward model entirely outperformed the standard two-stage form [ 7 ] .
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