[FeepingCreature]

At least one sci-fi novel iirc had an AI spam filter achieve sentience, because the task basically amounted to contrastive-learning a model of humanity.

[russnewcomer]

That’s one of Peter Watt’s Rifters trilogy, I think maybe the second one? Been a few years since I read them. I think it’s a biological neural net, not an Ai per se. Lots of big ideas in those books, but not a lot of optimism and some rough stuff.

[biztos]

Having worked in the field, I think you’re more likely to achieve AGI by intelligently watering tomatoes in a hothouse.