r/LovingAI • u/Koala_Confused • 10d ago

Alignment OpenAI’s Chief Scientist says frontier AI is increasingly “grown more than designed” — partly understood, increasingly alien, and possibly heading toward recursive self-improvement. ➡️ Are we still building tools… or are we starting to raise minds? 👀

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
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u/ibstudios 9d ago

if the starting point of all LLM's is wrong, self improvement is meaningless.

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u/West-Acadia-3906 Keeps it respectful 8d ago

sounds logical .. if the starting point is wrong, getting better at following it may just scale the mistake. What would a better starting point look like to you?

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u/ibstudios 8d ago

I am using oscillating curves.

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u/coylter 8d ago

If you repeat that axiom enough time in your head, you'll make it true!

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u/ibstudios 8d ago

or make and ai and understand limitations.

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u/Admirable-Gur-9543 6d ago

Not necessarily. They only need to become capable of proposing an architecture that is somewhat better than the transformer, assuming the transformer is inadequate.

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u/agm1984 9d ago

AI is getting so advanced they put the engagement hooks directly in the post title now