Comment by reducesuffering
13 hours ago
This has already been going on for years. It's just that they were using GPT 4.5 to work on GPT 5. All this announcement mean is that they're confident enough in early GPT 5.3 model output to further refine GPT 5.3 based on initial 5.3. But yes, takeoff will still happen because of this recursive self improvement works, it's just that we're already past the inception point.
I can't tell if this is a serious conversation anymore.
I think it's important in AI discussions to reason correctly from fundamentals and not disregard possibilities simply because they seem like fiction/absurd. If the reasoning is sound, it could well happen.
“Best start believing in science fiction stories. You're in one.”
https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2017310187309113781
I guess humans were involved in all that, so how is that anything but tool use?