'You would be able to say to it: 'Make a better version of yourself.' And it just goes off and does that completely autonomously': Anthropic Co-Founder on our wild 'recursive' AI future
Some day, AI will be able to build a better version of itself, predicts one of Anthropic Co-Founders, as the company now aggressively tries to both grow its platform with more processing power (thanks, SpaceX AI) and manage what it apparently sees as the looming threat of too-powerful AI. Now, in a new paper from the Anthropic Institute, it introduces the idea of "recursive self-improvement," and yes, it's as bad as it sounds.
It's been a couple of months since Anthropic quietly launched its own institute with the goal of confronting "the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies." As the company that almost unwittingly built Mythos, a model that finds hidden vulnerabilities in almost any system of any vintage, perhaps Anthropic felt it was its duty to get ahead of this stuff.
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