‘Close to the Terminator narrative’: The dawn of self-improving AI
Industry chiefs say a looming tech breakthrough might deliver superintelligence. Safety experts say we’re not ready for it.
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Self-improving AI systems could keep on building new, more powerful versions of themselves.
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Tim Bradshaw and Cristina Criddle
Tim Rocktaschel, an AI professor at University College London, was teaching a class recently on a novel branch of research in his field when one of his students reached for a historical analogy to describe the work.
“We’re all kind of mini Oppenheimers at this point,” the student quipped. Rocktaschel, who until recently was a top researcher at Google DeepMind, had to concede it was a fair assessment.
