AI Invents Itself: Good News?
November 28, 2024
Everyone from technology leaders to conspiracy theorists are fearful of a robot apocalypse. Functional robots are still years away from practicality, but AI in filling in that antagonist role nicely. Forbes shares how AI is on its way to creating itself: “AI That Can Invent AI Is Coming. Buckle Up.” AI is learning how to automate more tasks and will soon replace a human at a job.
In order for AI to become fully self-sufficient then it only needs to learn the job of an AI researcher. With a simple feedback loop, AI can develop superior architecture and improve on that as they advance their “research.” It might sound farfetched, but an AI developer role is simple: read about AI, invent new questions to ask, and implement experiments to test and answer those questions. It might sound too simple but algorithms are designed to automate and figure out knowledge:
For one thing, research on core AI algorithms and methods can be carried out digitally. Contrast this with research in fields like biology or materials science, which (at least today) require the ability to navigate and manipulate the physical world via complex laboratory setups. Dealing with the real world is a far gnarlier challenge for AI and introduces significant constraints on the rate of learning and progress. Tasks that can be completed entirely in the realm of “bits, not atoms” are more achievable to automate. A colorable argument could be made that AI will sooner learn to automate the job of an AI researcher than to automate the job of a plumber.
Consider, too, that the people developing cutting-edge AI systems are precisely those people who most intimately understand how AI research is done. Because they are deeply familiar with their own jobs, they are particularly well positioned to build systems to automate those activities.”
In the future, AI will develop and reinvent itself but the current AI still can’t basic facts about the Constitution or living humans correct. AI is frankly still very dumb. Humans haven’t made themselves obsolete yet, but we’re on way to doing that. Celebrate!
Whitney Grace, November 28, 2024
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