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AI Self-Improvement

Research Papers  Research efforts have explored methods to enable LLMs to refine their outputs through self-reflection and iterative processes. A study titled "Large Language Models Can Self-Improve" demonstrated that LLMs could enhance their reasoning abilities by generating high-confidence, rationale-augmented answers for unlabeled questions and fine-tuning themselves using these self-generated solutions. arxiv.org Another approach, detailed in the paper "SELF: Self-Evolution with Language Feedback," involves a framework where LLMs engage in self-reflection and refinement, iteratively improving their performance without human intervention. This method draws inspiration from human learning processes, emphasizing the potential for LLMs to evolve through self-assessment and feedback. arxiv.org

Great Thinkers in Technology

  Bernard Stiegler  ( 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. Gilbert Simondon  ( 2 October 1924 – 7 February 1989) was a French philosopher best known for his theory of  individuation  and his work on the field of  philosophy of technology .  Yuk Hui  is a Hong Kong philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is known for his writings on philosophy and technology. Bruno Latour  ( 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.  He was especially known for his work in the field of  science and technology studies  (STS).   Andrew Feenberg  (born 1943) is an American philosopher. He holds the  Canada Research Chair  in the Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication at  Simon Fraser University  in Vancouver. 

COEVOLUTION: ARTIFICIAL HUMANS

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit Thus far, the history of computing has followed a trajectory of ever greater integration and interaction between humans and machines. Fashioning our tools to fit us ever more closely—in line with millennia of human practice— we have not previously considered developing tools that were unsuited to our anatomy or intellect, instead remaining guided only and wholly by the limits of our biology. But now the advent of AI may persuade at least some of us to contemplate a reverse mission: In a case where our tools appear to outpace our capabilities—as AI sometimes does already—might we consider engineering ourselves so as to maximize the tools’ utility and thus ensure our continued participation in shared endeavors like those outlined in previous chapters? Biological engineering efforts designed for tighter human fusion with machines are already underway. Starting with physical interconnects by means of chips in the human brain, ...

DEFINING HUMANITY

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit As machines increasingly assume human qualities (and if some humans enhance themselves to take on machinelike qualities), lines will become hazy. What is AI and what is human will change and, in some cases, merge. In coming to judge how we must keep pace with AI, humans will therefore need to assert more clearly what it is that distinguishes us from machines. How, then, will we compile and compress the entire range of human experience for easy comprehension by AI? To preclude either our demotion or our replacement by machines, some will want to lay claim to difference via our proximity to divinity. Others will wish to ascertain more tactical conclusions: which kinds of decision-making can be delegated to machines and which cannot. We propose the articulation of an attribute, or set of attributes, that most of humanity could rally behind and orient around: one that will supply a floor underneath what is preferable but not a c...

Homo Technicus

a human species that may, in this new age, live in symbiosis with machine technology. Indeed, either mindset could preclude the evolution of our species. Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit For further exploration of the idea Homo technicus , see Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher, “ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution,” Wall Street Journal , February 24, 2023.

Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)

Theory  Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is imminent - Cognitive Hyper Abundance is coming (Jan 19, 2025) AI Models Close to ASI DEEPSEEK DROPS AI BOMBSHELL: A.I Improves ITSELF Towards Superintelligence (BEATS o1) (Jan 20, 2025)

The Selfish Machine? On the Power and Limitation of Natural Selection to Understand the Development of Advanced AI (Paper)

 https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23903/1/The%20Selfish%20Machine_%20On%20the%20Power%20and%20Limitation%20of%20Natural%20Selection%20to%20Understand%20the%20Development%20of%20Advanced%20AI.pdf Published: 24 September 2024 Abstract Some philosophers and machine learning experts have speculated that superintelligent Artificial Intelligences (AIs), if and when they arrive on the scene, will wrestle away power from humans, with potentially catastrophic consequences. Dan Hendrycks has recently buttressed such worries by arguing that AI systems will undergo evolution by natural selection, which will endow them with instinctive drives for self-preservation, dominance and resource accumulation that are typical of evolved creatures. In this paper, we argue that this argument is not compelling as it stands. Evolutionary processes, as we point out, can be more or less Darwinian along a number of dimensions. Making use of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s framework of Darwinian spaces, we argue that the...