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As I said, the parent comment didn't say the network was self modifying. The exact quote was "this is about teaching computers to re-write their own code" which
by Houshalter 10y ago
As I said, the parent comment didn't say the network was self modifying. The exact quote was "this is about teaching computers to re-write their own code" which is roughly correct. If you see the weights of neural network as a sort of code, then the computer is rewriting it's own code.
- Radim 10y agoAnd if you see the universe as "a sort of code", the network is rewiring the universe! How's that for a bombastic editorial title? (To be clear, I'm 100% agreeing with gcr here. Parameter optimization is a tremendously powerful technique, and quite possibly the "true currency" of our universe, but there's a few abstraction layers missing between that and a claim of "self-modifying AI")
- Houshalter 10y agoThe universe isn't code, and only gcr used the term "self modifying". There is absolutely nothing bombastic implied by the statement that a program can rewrite code.
- Dylan16807 10y agoBut it's fundamentally one module [re]writing a completely different module. "rewrites its own code" is a very misleading way to describe that.