2021/03/30

Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter

● 30/03/2021
“How many people do you need to put together a Manhattan Project? The relevant question is: how large of a population do you need to draw from in order to recruit enough scientists to staff such an effort?”
– Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang, on why people and not AI, are the key to the fabled intelligence explosion. “This is how recursive self-improvement takes place—not at the level of individuals but at the level of human civilization as a whole.”
The New Yorker
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