Hector Zenil

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Associate Professor at King's College London; researcher in algorithmic information theory, complexity science, and AI alignment

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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It makes a more specific claim about the route from recursive generative modelling to recursive self-improvement. An intelligence explosion requires an improvement operator. Closed-loop density matching does not supply one.
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