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Google says it's AI is now recursively improving its own chips faster than human experts can. (www.nature.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

For anyone familiar with the ideas behind what Ray Kurzweil called 'The Singularity', this looks awfully like it's first baby steps.

For those that don't know, the idea is that when AI gets the ability to improve itself, it will begin to become exponentially more powerful. As each step will make it even better, at designing the next generation of chips to make it more powerful.

[–] ownsauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fascinating and quite terrifying.

[–] Lugh -3 points 1 month ago

I've been familiar with his ideas for years, even though intellectually I could see they were true, emotionally I always felt they were science-fiction. Now this is starting to look like science-fact.

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