Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning
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| author | Musat, Claudiu Cristian Tolins, Jackson Antognini, Diego Li, Jingling Klissarov, Martin Duerig, Tom |
| author_facet | Musat, Claudiu Cristian Tolins, Jackson Antognini, Diego Li, Jingling Klissarov, Martin Duerig, Tom |
| contents | Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internalized from high-quality social interaction. Drawing on Vygotskian developmental psychology, we advance three core positions centered on Introspection. First, we argue for the Social Genesis of the Private Mind: learning from conversational environments rises to prominence as a new way to make sense of the world; the friction of aligning with another agent, internal or not, refines and crystallizes the reasoning process. Second, we argue that dialogically scaffolded introspective experiences allow agents to engage in sense-making that decouples learning from immediate data streams, transforming raw environmental data into rich, learnable narratives. Finally, we contend that Dialogue Quality is the New Data Quality: the depth of an agent's private reasoning, and its efficiency regarding test-time compute, is determined by the diversity and rigor of the dialogues it has mastered. We conclude that optimizing these conversational scaffolds is the primary lever for the next generation of general intelligence. |
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| spellingShingle | Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning Musat, Claudiu Cristian Tolins, Jackson Antognini, Diego Li, Jingling Klissarov, Martin Duerig, Tom Artificial Intelligence Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internalized from high-quality social interaction. Drawing on Vygotskian developmental psychology, we advance three core positions centered on Introspection. First, we argue for the Social Genesis of the Private Mind: learning from conversational environments rises to prominence as a new way to make sense of the world; the friction of aligning with another agent, internal or not, refines and crystallizes the reasoning process. Second, we argue that dialogically scaffolded introspective experiences allow agents to engage in sense-making that decouples learning from immediate data streams, transforming raw environmental data into rich, learnable narratives. Finally, we contend that Dialogue Quality is the New Data Quality: the depth of an agent's private reasoning, and its efficiency regarding test-time compute, is determined by the diversity and rigor of the dialogues it has mastered. We conclude that optimizing these conversational scaffolds is the primary lever for the next generation of general intelligence. |
| title | Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14910 |