Submitted by Kaarssteun t3_10zxpzy in singularity
Just a quick thought i had - Bing is the integration of ChatGPT into the web. It can search the web & look for facts for it to relay to you - understanding your prompt, understanding what to search & look for, then understanding what it finds.This is an integral part of how we, as humans nowadays, learn on a daily basis. If I want to learn something, I make a guess for what to search the internet for, and look through results to find what I want - the fact that Microsoft/OpenAI casually integrated this into their chatbot really blows my mind. Interacting with a search engine/the internet in general cannot be far away from it altering its own source code - recursively improving itself into the stratosphere, especially when it has access to the highway of knowledge.
There is already a proof of concept: a self-programming AI can successfully modify its own source code to improve performance and program sub-models to perform auxiliary tasks.
There may be some lacking areas preventing a true explosion from occurring right now - but it's only a matter of time before someone wires this thing together, and the results of it cannot be shallow.
FarFuckingOut t1_j86bnar wrote
The thing that gives me pause is, once AI takes the lion's share of data compilation, the AI compiled data becomes the source of data. Unless AI has a way of filtering AI generated data, any errors in its data or inherent biases compound, until the whole thing crumbles in a mess of self informed and reinforced data.