Could automating AI research spark rapid self-improvement?
A post asks whether the rapid progress its author sees in well-scoped but highly ambitious math problems could have a parallel in AI research.
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A post shares a debate about whether AIs automating AI research could trigger rapid recursive self-improvement—AI improving AI. The author draws a comparison with what they call an “explosion” in math on well-scoped but highly ambitious problems.
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Could automating AI research spark rapid self-improvement?
A post asks whether the rapid progress its author sees in well-scoped but highly ambitious math problems could have a parallel in AI research.
TLDR
A post shares a debate about whether AIs automating AI research could trigger rapid recursive self-improvement—AI improving AI. The author draws a comparison with what they call an “explosion” in math on well-scoped but highly ambitious problems.

