Toby Ord
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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then you could have a system that's below the human level and easier to build.
But then it keeps improving itself and improving itself.
And then it works out, now that it's so good at improving its own code, it works out how to improve other aspects of itself.
And then can ultimately kind of blossom into this kind of full set of capabilities at some very advanced level.
But his version still involved this idea that it was a bit like AI Improver is, say, your program written in Lisp or some other kind of symbolic system.
And then you run AI Improver on the source code of AI Improver.
And you put that in a loop.
And then you hit Return.
And then this thing kind of whirs away and improves itself like 1,000 times, say, over the next day.
And then you've got this super intelligent system.
with no real opportunity for humans to be in the picture anymore.
So they're the previous versions.
And then the modern conception that the labs are talking about now, it's more like you've got companies with thousands of human researchers and programmers, and also they're building AI.
And so far, the AI's abilities depend upon what these researchers do.
But we could have a little bit of input from the AI itself, where it feeds back in this feedback loop.
For example, at DeepMind, they developed an AI system that found a slightly faster matrix multiply algorithm.
Then the new chips for the next generation of AI could be, I don't know, one part in a thousand faster or something.
It wasn't that big a deal, but it was interesting.
That was a first stage where the AI improved its successor.
And there have been a few other things like this.
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