[ExI] Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code

[Darin Sunley]

Traditionally, recursive self-improvement has been understood as AGIs that
can use the full force of their IQ to modify their own code to improve
their own IQ. Repeat until apotheosis.

With LLM-based AGI, that would involve direct manipulation of weights that
would probably require mechanistic interpretability knowledge we don't have
yet (although I'm quite sure the major players are significantly ahead of
anything they've published publicly in that field).

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just
> saved millions in computing costs.
> Michael Nuñez     May 14, 2025
>
> <
> https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-alphaevolve-the-google-ai-that-writes-its-own-code-and-just-saved-millions-in-computing-costs/
> >
> Quote:
> AlphaEvolve pairs Google’s Gemini large language models with an
> evolutionary approach that tests, refines, and improves algorithms
> automatically. The system has already been deployed across Google’s
> data centers, chip designs, and AI training systems — boosting
> efficiency and solving mathematical problems that have stumped
> researchers for decades.
>
> AlphaEvolve has been quietly at work inside Google for over a year.
> The results are already significant.
> -----------------
>
> AIs are rewriting their own code now!
> This sounds like a major step forward towards AGI.
>
> BillK
>
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