Comment by password54321

20 hours ago

Using tools to build tools is recursive.

It's not recursive when it's done iteratively, or are you imagining GPT Astra designing GPT Galactia, which starts designing GPT Oh-My-God-ica before it has finished being created itself?

  • That sounds more iterative than recursive.

    Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel.

    Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.

    • You can search in parallel, but a depth N search can only become a depth N+1 search after the depth N is done (i.e. sequentially).

      In any case the name RSI has stuck - the idea doesn't change or make any more sense by giving it a different name.

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    • The “recursive” part comes from the fact that you have an AI which was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (…)))

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  • I think it's only recursive from the perspective of the humans, i.e. they design Astra, which itself as part of its deployment designs Galactica, etc.

    So humans develop things one after the other, but when the thing itself starts developing new things, those are happening 'recursively' in its scope.