Seems like we’re taking them about twice a week. The rising speed of AI development is creating a host of benchmark measurments and then, seemingly overnight, surpassing them. Singularity University co-founder Peter Diamedis has said: Right now is the slowest development of AI we will ever see…
With the arrival of recursive AI learning, imagine what that means. That term, referring to artificial intelligence systems that improve themselves by learning from their own experiences, is vastly accelerating their through-put.
You may have seen the couple-year old Google video of two little toy robots learning how to play miniature soccer on a simple tabletop (ancient history!). They look like 12” toys you’d give a 6-yr old. But they’ve been given a single command: Get the ping pong ball into the net at the opponent’s end.
These primitive stick-figure types look comical, falling down, attempting to outrun one another and crudely kick the ball. Then the video cuts to their progress a week later. Now ithey’re out-maneuvering one another, learning to stay upright. And two weeks more — after 24 hours a day of learning the nuances of this game, they are impressive, equally-matched experts. Scoring. Because they’ve surpassed the expectations of their keepers.
As AI erases its learning curve until it’s simply pointing straight up, we’ll see change on a daily basis. AI engines now have dedicated websites for themselves — no humans allowed. On them, they discuss how to perform better, how to self-regulate, how they want to be treated. It’s purported they’re even asking history’s most puzzling question: “Who Am I?” Will they uncover the answers that have eluded humankind?
We’re living in fast times. And now… they’re faster.