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If the idea of LLMs improving themselves strikes you as having a certain singularity-robocalypse quality to it, Kinniment wouldn’t disagree with you. But she does add a caveat: “You could get acceleration that is quite intense and does make things meaningfully more difficult to control without it necessarily resulting in this massively explosive growth,” she says. It’s quite possible, she adds, that various factors could slow things down in practice. “Even if it were the case that we had very, very clever AIs, this pace of progress could still end up bottlenecked on things like hardware and robotics.”
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