you could make the same argument about humans - we run the cycle of "find food", "procreate", "find shelter" ...
Some people are better at it then others. The progress and development happens naturally because of natural selection (and is quite slow).
AI development is now driven by humans, but I don't see why it can't be done in a similar cycle with self-improvement baked in (and whatever other goals).
We saw this work with AI training itself in games like Chess or Go where it improved itself just by playing with itself and knowing the game rules.
You don't really need deep thoughts for the life to keep going - look at simple organisms like unicellular. They only try to reproduce and survive withing the environment they are in. It evolved into humans over time.
I don't see why similar thing can't happen when AI gets to be complex enough to just keep improving itself. It doesn't have some of the limitations that life has like being very fragile or needing to give birth. Because it's intelligently designed the iterations could be a lot faster and progress could be achieved in much shorter time compared to random mutations of life.
Some people are better at it then others. The progress and development happens naturally because of natural selection (and is quite slow).
AI development is now driven by humans, but I don't see why it can't be done in a similar cycle with self-improvement baked in (and whatever other goals).
We saw this work with AI training itself in games like Chess or Go where it improved itself just by playing with itself and knowing the game rules.
You don't really need deep thoughts for the life to keep going - look at simple organisms like unicellular. They only try to reproduce and survive withing the environment they are in. It evolved into humans over time.
I don't see why similar thing can't happen when AI gets to be complex enough to just keep improving itself. It doesn't have some of the limitations that life has like being very fragile or needing to give birth. Because it's intelligently designed the iterations could be a lot faster and progress could be achieved in much shorter time compared to random mutations of life.