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Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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It's probably not long till frontier AI companies automate AI research. Then we get recursive self-improvement and eventually superintelligence. The singularity is near. Only a few years perhaps.

Forgot the /s

Short for /superintelligence.

Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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this is very far from hyperparameter tuning in at least three important ways: - it can modify code arbitrarily, the notion of a "hyperparameter" dissolves - there is no need to run "sweeps" - this is the standard parallel process that wastes compute. because LLM agents are sequential, they can do more efficient versions such as binary search to narrow in on the right setting very quickly (usually many parameters will…

How about the very last "Kept Improvement" in the plot? It's titled "random seed 42 -> 137". I do think this project is quite conceptually interesting, but the model literally choosing a different random seed to achieve lower loss feels pretty far removed from the flowery sci-fi writing at the top of the readme.

It shows that both Karpathy and the LLM have good taste in random seeds: the answer to life, the universe and everything, and ~1/(the fine structure constant)

Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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As ai improves, most tasks will become something like this. Environments setup where the model learns through trial and error Any human endeavor that can be objectively verified in some environment like this can be completely automated

don't forget the size of the search space...

Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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As ai improves, most tasks will become something like this. Environments setup where the model learns through trial and error Any human endeavor that can be objectively verified in some environment like this can be completely automated

So much this.

People make fun of prompt engineering, but I think "AI ops" will eventually become a real role at most if not all software companies. Harness Engineers and Agent Reliability Engineers will be just as important as something like DevOps is now.

Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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As ai improves, most tasks will become something like this. Environments setup where the model learns through trial and error Any human endeavor that can be objectively verified in some environment like this can be completely automated

So much this. People make fun of prompt engineering, but I think "AI ops" will eventually become a real role at most if not all software companies. Harness Engineers and Agent Reliability Engineers will be just as important as something like DevOps is now.

Prompt engineering is already dying. AI has become great at inferring what you mean even without being incredibly explicit and creates its own detailed plan to follow. Harnesses will also be developed by AI.

Re: Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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It's probably not long till frontier AI companies automate AI research. Then we get recursive self-improvement and eventually superintelligence. The singularity is near. Only a few years perhaps.

Forgot the /s

AI currently lacks agency but if it can achieve greater goal setting and agency I can't see why self-improvement could not be achieved.

I think the most disappointing thing will be that even we do achieve ASI, everything will carry on as business as usual for a while before it starts making an economic impact because of how resistant to change we have made society.

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