> The idea that an AI could continually improve itself... That's not that hard to imagine. AI-s are also limited by the laws of nature and they have limited ca

> The idea that an AI could continually improve itself... That's not that hard to imagine. AI-s are also limited by the laws of nature and they have limited capacity. Now if an AI wants to improve it needs more computational power which costs money in our world. So if an AI's goal is to improve itself, first it needs to make lots of money to keep its hardware running. If it can scale horizontally, then it's a simple order from Amazon to a rural farm.