Recursive AI self-improvement raises questions about autonomy, accountability, purpose and what it means to improve itself.

Introduction: Why Can Intelligence Improve Itself?When discussing AI, the term "recursive self-improvement" is sometimes used.Using one's own capabilities to improve oneself, and using those improved ...

The first list of instructions is obeyed on the way up the spiral i.e. as the instances of the function are being built and the second list is obeyed on the way back down the spiral as the instances ...

The common way a DNS server is configured to handle requests. The DNS server makes multiple requests to the various DNS servers on the Internet in order to wind up with the actual IP address of the ...

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Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...