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by technotony 581 days ago
Yes, because if AI can do maths then it can use that to improve the efficiency/quality of it's algorithms to self improve...
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The quality of AI algorithms is not based on formal mathematics at all. (For example, I'm unaware of even one theorem relevant to going from GPT-1 to GPT-4.) Possibly in the future it'll be otherwise though.
... or it might prove that it's impossible to self-improve given the current constraits