@rohanpaul_ai: it begins, everybody is talking about recursive self-improvement. This is from Dario Amodei's latest 3800 word essay.
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Dario Amodei's essay discusses recursive self-improvement in AI and calls for slowing development by limiting resources such as training compute and internal AI use.
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it begins, everybody is talking about recursive self-improvement.
This is from Dario Amodei’s latest 3800 word essay. https://t.co/kTpuX8KOLB
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): In 3,800-word essay on saturday morning Dario Amodei is calling for AI slowdown.
“We should also consider pacing based on limiting the ingredients that go into frontier models, such as training compute, the nature of training runs, or internal use of AI to improve AI.”
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