After thinking about this a bit more, the main point I’d want to make is less about recursive self improvement and more that just there’s a lot more capability in these models than people realize.
Whether that capacity is enough for recursive self improvement is another question that I’m not certain about either way but I think it’s at least plausible that it might be. I will note that humanity improves in its knowledge and capability without architectural change. That’s a rough analogy to the type of improvement I’m imagining.
After thinking about this a bit more, the main point I’d want to make is less about recursive self improvement and more that just there’s a lot more capability in these models than people realize.
Whether that capacity is enough for recursive self improvement is another question that I’m not certain about either way but I think it’s at least plausible that it might be. I will note that humanity improves in its knowledge and capability without architectural change. That’s a rough analogy to the type of improvement I’m imagining.