Comment by ltbarcly3

Reinforcement learning doesn't make them smarter though, it probably actually reduces their intelligence in some sense, but it does socialize them so that they will tend to behave in ways that are more useful.

For example, when you paste the first 30 lines of a famous speech, you don't want it to finish the speech, you want it to give you the identity and some analysis of what you just pasted. From what I understand, that is the reinforcement part.

Now that large AI vendors have a massive corpus of user interactions however, the lines have likely become more blurred.