I think Eliezer meant “self” very hyper specific here, not just improving a similar instance to yourself or preparing new training data, but literally looking into the if statements and loops of its own code while it is thinking of how to best upgrade its own code. So in that sense I don’t know if Eliezer would approve of the term “Extrospective Recursive Self Improvemnt”.
Does AI-automated AI R&D count as “Recursive Self-Improvement”? I’m not sure what Yudkowsky would say, but regardless, enough people would count it that I’m happy to concede some semantic territory. The best thing (imo) is just to distinguish them with an adjective.
I would probably say RSI is a special case of AI-automated R&D. What you are describing is another special case where it only does these non-introspective forms of AI research. This non-introspective research could also be done between totally different models.
I think Eliezer meant “self” very hyper specific here, not just improving a similar instance to yourself or preparing new training data, but literally looking into the if statements and loops of its own code while it is thinking of how to best upgrade its own code. So in that sense I don’t know if Eliezer would approve of the term “Extrospective Recursive Self Improvemnt”.
Does AI-automated AI R&D count as “Recursive Self-Improvement”? I’m not sure what Yudkowsky would say, but regardless, enough people would count it that I’m happy to concede some semantic territory. The best thing (imo) is just to distinguish them with an adjective.
I would probably say RSI is a special case of AI-automated R&D. What you are describing is another special case where it only does these non-introspective forms of AI research. This non-introspective research could also be done between totally different models.