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Re:The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewr... by skydhash on Friday May 30, 2025 @01:43PM (#44138408) 

  Can it do stuff? Yes

  Can it do stuff I need? Maybe

  Does it always do the stuff I need? No
Pick your pair of question and answer.
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Re:The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewr... by throwawaymaths on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:06PM (#44139047)
humans are intelligent and most definitely are nowhere close to doing #3

some intelligent humans fail at #2.

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Re:The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewr... by skydhash on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:51PM (#44139384)
Which is why we have checklist and process that get us to #3. And we automate some of them to further reduce the chance of errors. The nice thing about automation is that you can just prove that it works once and you don't need to care that much after (deterministic process).
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