And if you see the universe as "a sort of code", the network is rewiring the universe!
How's that for a bombastic editorial title?
(To be clear, I'm 100% agreeing with gcr here. Parameter optimization is a tremendously powerful technique, and quite possibly the "true currency" of our universe, but there's a few abstraction layers missing between that and a claim of "self-modifying AI")
The universe isn't code, and only gcr used the term "self modifying". There is absolutely nothing bombastic implied by the statement that a program can rewrite code.
How's that for a bombastic editorial title?
(To be clear, I'm 100% agreeing with gcr here. Parameter optimization is a tremendously powerful technique, and quite possibly the "true currency" of our universe, but there's a few abstraction layers missing between that and a claim of "self-modifying AI")