Ramez Naam: Can AI self-improvement overcome diminishing returns?

This is a linkpost for a new essay by futurist and sci fi author Ramez Naam: Can AI self-improvement overcome diminishing returns?AI is already helping improve itself. The question is whether even fully autonomous recursive self-improvement (RSI) would cause a runaway intelligence explosion.The theory is that each generation of AI could build a better successor, faster than the last generation did. That could lead to a “fast takeoff,” with capabilities surging to artificial superintelligence (AS...