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1. in_absentia · 1790086050 · focus · HN ↗

   So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?

   1. jrflo · 1790087352 · focus · HN ↗

      Read the article, that's not what this is about. Title is clickbait, they fired contractors for using AI to label data when the whole point of labeling data is to distill human knowledge into weights, not distill weights into weights.

      1. in_absentia · 1790088685 · focus · HN ↗

         You're replying to a joke, and yes, that's all it's about. For all the tales of rapid self-improvement, all labs are real careful not to taint their precious training sets with anything that comes out of their systems. Website reputation modeling, fingerprints in generated text, firing contractors that rely on AI.

         I've been told on HN about a year ago that the era of scraping is over and that it's all AI-training-AI now. My web server logs and stories like that disagree.

         1. pixl97 · 1790098877 · focus · HN ↗

            I've been told on HN that 1+1=3, so, yes, skepticism is required on broad claims.

            There are more subtle truths on this. Things that can be proven algorithmically are much more apt to be in recursive AI loops now. Hence things like programming and hacking keep improving steadily over time with much less human training data being added.

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