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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Won’t come at all. It’s mathematically impossible.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
Proof?
Replying to @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
The output of a statistical model cannot contain more information than what it already had.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
In one sense, true… in another sense, somehow, evolution did just that over the course of hundreds of millions of years. We are the proof.
Replying to @partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
“That” is not what evolution did.
Replying to @LodeMike@lemmy.today
But we are the material manifestation of the evolutionary process in modern time… one small slice of it, at least.
Our minds simulate everything. We simulate our body schema, our selves, others (theory of mind), the external world.
We evolved to do that, from a prior state of not doing that.
Hence, evolution as a process has increased the information entropy of a system (us). We are a system that naturally undergoes evolution.
How could it be that we are not proof of exactly what you say should be impossible? The human mind isn’t a constant natural given in this universe. It came to be from simpler, historic forms of mind.
Replying to @partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
I want to believe this but every biology major I talked to is like “that’s the middle-school explanation of evolution” and mention the actual process had more things going on.