🔮 Autoresearch and the experimental society

Science is the most reliable method humanity has found for producing knowledge. It has also, for most of history, been expensive to run. released 600 lines of Python code a few weeks ago that started to change that. His autoresearch (see EV#565) runs an autonomous experimental loop in which a human sets a strategic direction, defines what good looks like and the agent iterates towards success within the guardrails. In Andrej’s initial experiment, it trained a GPT-2-level model over two days, 11%...