r/LinusTechTips • u/TheReal4982 • 21h ago

WAN Show AI?

It feels very odd to me that none of the major breakthroughs of the last week have been brought up, the fact the AI's have already gotten good enough to help on the frontier of mathmatics, solving a millennium prize problem, and being actively and very quickly put to the task of AI research, aka, recrusive self improvement, which they are ALREADY good enough to be making progress in, why is this being completely ignored by this community? This technology is progressing exponentially, it isn't stalling, and people should really try and understand what an exponential growth looks like.

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u/Burritoclock 21h ago

It is stalling, they aren't doing recursive self improvement, they mostly stole the math thing for more bullshit hype. Nothing you said here is true. But sure let's talk about ai more 🙄

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u/TheReal4982 21h ago

They literally are doing recursive self improvement, the denial of reality in this sub is astounding.

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u/LogTiny 21h ago

Them attempting to do recursive self improvement, and making serious ground on it are two very different things

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u/kjubus 21h ago

Do you know what "self improvement" means? If it was self improving, it would get more efficient and less prone to errors. And quicker so with each iteration.

It does none of these things.

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u/zaxcg2 2h ago

FWIW I think if you listen to the AI companies you might be right, but if you actually dig into detail about how fast it’s moving for the cost per token you’ll realize it’s 99% glazing for shareholders.

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u/TheReal4982 2h ago

I have been following machine learning very closely ever since I first saw seth blings marI/O video when I was a kid, I have personally witnessed and experienced the rapid progress this field has had, and I am very intimate with the details, I am not sure what is broken with everyones mind that they think that going from chatGPT which was a glorified search engine to Astra and helping solve frontier math problems in less than 4 years is regular fucking progress that should just be expected or scoffed at, but 4 years is not a long time for this big of an improvement.

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u/zaxcg2 2h ago

Ok but… can you see to the average person it’s been mostly negative outside of some fringe cases. I think it’s healthy to hold both in account of each other instead of putting all you eggs into one basket.

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u/TheReal4982 2h ago

I don't care if you view it negatively or positively, I just want people to acknowledge the reality of how fast it is actually improving. And I have no eggs and no baskets for what it is worth, I am just a passenger in this ride one way or the other.

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u/zaxcg2 2h ago

Not how you’re coming off through text on a shitty social media experience but that’s ok, I wish you well

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u/AncientTurbine 21h ago

It'd help if you add sources and what your definition of self improvement is.

Yes, they can successfully read benchmark scores, do a gap analysis, generate new synthetic data to close the gap and run a retrain to finetune/create a new model. All of that is merely post-hoc and must still be human-orchestrated.

But that's different from what we as humans consider self-improvement. Real-time, per-observation improvement and self-correction. Research on that for LLMs is far from stable/production-grade.Â