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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] -3 points 17 hours ago* (2 children)

All that an AI has to do to disprove that claim is pay someone to weigh one orange through fivr. So either your claim is wrong, or LLMs as they exist now are no longer statistical models. Go ahead and move the goal post if you want, my complaint was about your overly broad claim.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    I think their point is the LLM didn't contain the information on the weight of that orange, it had to outsource it.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago

    I picked the way in which an AI model (as the exist now) could most trivially produce a piece of novel (and deliberately trivial) information.

    I wasn't worried about whether the credit could fairly be attributed to it. We're talking about whether they can produce information with which to grow their knowledge. Moral credit for the growth of their knowledge is outside the scope of the discussion.

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