No need to panic about Anthropic’s new blog

The twitterverse is all verklempt with Anthropic’s latest blog. The blog, which shows considerable advances in the ability of their systems to write code, is interesting, and make an argument for slowing down AI research that should be considered. But it should also carry an advisory. Here’s the advisory they forgot to include:AGI is *harder* than “recursive self improvement” [RSI]AGI: machine can do anything human can do, autonomously. That has not achieved]RSI (as used below): AI is a useful coding tool that humans can leverage [achieved]; it’s great at (some) code optimizationsThe results in the blog are about RSI, not AGI.Getting to AGI will require new ideas, not just new code optimizations. So we...

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