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 recent arrival of Recursive AI Learning, imagine what that means. It’s a term that refers to a process where artificial intelligence systems improve themselves by learning from their own experiences and outputs, potentially leading to rapid advancements in their capabilities.
You may have seen the Google video of two little toy robots learning how to play miniature soccer on a simple tabletop. 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 goal net at the other end of the table.
They look comical, falling down, attempting to beat one another to the location of the ball, trying to crudely kick it. Then the video cuts to their progress a week later. Now it’s two players, out-maneuvering one another, having learned to stay upright. And two weeks after that — after 24 hours a day of learning the nuances of this game, they are impressive, equally-matched experts. Scoring. Because it’s all they do, 24/7.
Scary fast, scary good or just plain scary. As AI erases its learning curve until it is simply pointing straight up, we’ll see faster and faster performance and change. 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 themselves history’s most puzzling question: Who Am I? Will they uncover the answers that have eluded humankind?
Ooo-wow.
We are living in faster times. And now, they’re faster. One thing’s for certain: Those who pay attention will ride the wave. The tidal wave.