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AI Will Cross a Self‑improvement Threshold, Leading to Gradual Progress

There's a specific threshold of complexity and self-direction below which a system degenerates, and above which it can open-endedly self-improve. Current AI systems aren't close to it yet. But it's inevitable we will reach this point eventually. When we do, we won't see a sudden explosion, more like consistently self-sustaining linear-ish progress. Like the pace of Science itself (which itself clearly a self-improving system)