From what I'm experiencing, we have recursive self improvement that can find local maxima, I'm not seeing really strong evidence of unguided RSI that finds the true optimal.
From what I'm experiencing, we have recursive self improvement that can find local maxima, I'm not seeing really strong evidence of unguided RSI that finds the true optimal.
You don't expect to find the global maximum. It will just always be there as an elusive target.
I doubt the human brain is at global maximum.
Doesn’t matter if there’s a rechable local maximum that happens to be comfortably beyond human level. Indeed it would be very surprising if a thing capable of RSI just happened to get stuck at human level or slightly above or below, even though its constraints are entirely different from those evolution had to work with when it created us!
I doubt that any algorithms would be able to find a global maximum in such a large multidimensional non-convex space
What local maxima are you seeing? That would imply that progress has stalled, which doesn't appear to be the case where I'm looking.
Also, RSI is obviously guided. If only guided by "it's not giving results so we'll try something else". To require that RSI happens in a black box for it to count would be arbitrary, and also not how anyone is going to do it.
> RSI is obviously
There is no publicly known reference example of RSI, we have no idea how it works or what it does to the trajectory of progress?
> true optimal
True optimal what? Optimal intelligence? What would that be?