[ExI] Recursive self improvement and GPT-7

[John Clark]

*This is the sort of thing I was referring to. And this is why I can't get
all hot and bothered over deficit spending, illegal immigration, climate
change, or men in women's sports:*

* We need to talk about this...*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQIeVznGG3k&t=12s>

*John K Clark*

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the general public about two weeks
> ago and everybody was amazed, it was by far the most advanced AI that
> anybody had ever seen. Then about one week ago OpenAI released GPT-6 to the
> general public and it blew Claude Fable 5 out of the water, it was by far
> the most advanced AI that anybody had ever seen. Then just yesterday OpenAI
> announced that one of their AIs solved the million dollar millennium
> mathematical prize involving the Navier-Stokes Equation which describes
> fluid flow; the AI proved that even though the equation is based entirely
> on Newtonian physics it nevertheless produces mathematical singularities
> when things get small. Human mathematicians have been trying to prove that,
> or trying to prove that doing that was impossible, since 1822 when
> the Navier-Stokes Equation was discovered, but they had been unsuccessful
> in doing either.  *
>
> *The interesting thing was the AI that OpenAI used to create the biggest
> mathematical breakthrough in 25 years was NOT GPT-6, it was another
> unreleased AI (internal code name "Bell") that the company said had
> "significantly" greater abilities then GPT-6. Bell generated 10,000 agents,
> each investigating a different way of attacking the problem, and after
> thinking about it for 88 hours it solved a problem that humans had been
> trying to solve for over 200 years. *
>
> *It took 33 months to go from GPT-3 to GPT-4, but now with recursive self
> improvement .... well... we live in interesting times.  *
>
>
> *AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems*
> <https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solved-one-of-maths-1-million-millennium-prize-problems-20260908/>
>
> * John K Clark    See what's on my list at  Extropolis
> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
>
> 4y9
>
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