AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI…
On the other hand, the agents were unambiguously bad at carrying out the research itself, says Kapoor. They ran bizarre experiments (in some cases testing their hypotheses on tiny synthetic datasets)… [+3186 chars]