'Since the language models themselves are not altered, this is not full recursive self-improvement,' the researchers noted. 'Nonetheless, it demonstrates that a modern language model, GPT-4 in our experiments, is capable of writing code that can call itself to improve itself.'
All that research has some observers nervous about the potential for self-coding AI systems that quickly outpace both our intelligence and our abilities to control them. Responding to Anthropic's research in AI newsletter Artificiality, Dave Edwards highlighted the concern: 'For hundreds of years, the capacity for self-improvement has been fundamental to our understanding of what it is to be human...What does it mean, then, if humans might no longer be the only self-improving beings?'
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