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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

found that AI agents could solve the engineering problems necessary to do AI research but lacked the judgment and creativity to produce original research at the caliber of papers accepted by a top machine-learning conference.

I mean that describes a majority of engineers. No small feat

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

If the standard of ML talks at conferences I've attended is anything to go by then a top machine learning conference is functionally a daycare for the most annoying people you've ever met

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Tbh a lot of ai conference papers would absolutely be writable from most engineers. A lot of papers are : we trained a model and got these results. They didn't publish the weight though, so you would be unable to check the paper.