AI Evolution: Ditch Gradients, Grow Ecosystems?
“Your next AI might be born, not built—and it won't ask your permission.”
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What happened: Your next AI might be born, not built—and it won't ask your permission.
This Neural Toon is based on the story “Cultivating Machine Intelligence: The OMEGA Shift from Top-Down Optimization to Autopoietic Cognitive Ecologies”.
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Comic transcript
Panel 1 – Mia: Another hype train. What now?
Panel 1 – Jake: Paper claims training is obsolete!
Panel 2 – Mia: Zare's RECLAIM: evolution replaces gradients.
Panel 2 – Jake: So no more backprop?
Panel 3 – Mia: Hallucinations might finally vanish.
Panel 3 – Jake: My RLHF job is toast.
Panel 4 – Mia: Who controls the ecosystem?
Panel 4 – Jake: What if it evolves past us?
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