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Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from HumanFeedback

How computers learned to be more helpful and safe with human choices

We taught computer helpers to give better answers by letting people pick which replies they liked, and the system learned from those choices.
This made the helpers more helpful and also more harmless, so they avoid giving risky or confusing replies.
The team kept improving the systems with fresh data every week, so the helpers changed little by little and got better fast, this was done while still teaching them special skills like coding and summarization.
People looked at many examples, picked favorites, and that human touch — the human feedback — guided the learning.
Tests showed the helpers improved on many tasks, and they still stayed close to how they began so they didn’t go off track.
The work also checked how steady the training was and what happens when you push the system harder.
It’s a way to make smarter, kinder computer assistants that keep learning from people, step by step, with simple, steady updates like weekly updates.

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