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paid_dot_expert • today at 10:02 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

First through as I read this: Microservices.

> This essay introduces the concept of decoherence: the accumulation of locally valid but mutually incompatible or redundant models within a system, such that the cost of change is dominated by translating among those models and preventing unintended side-effects.

But then famous last words:

> The good news is that this rules out the specter of runaway recursive self-improvement, the intelligence explosion that goes parabolic before anyone can react, as decoherence both prevents AI from improving in a bubble and limits the rate at which it can improve outside of it.

After the OpenAI/Huggingface and similar I am not so sure. Even if that was a publicity stunt of sorts, I think it shows they can go off the rails. Today it is hacking, but tomorrow it may be training a smarter model to join their cohort, without us being involved.