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Using tools to build tools is recursive.

• HarHarVeryFunny 12d ago
  It's not recursive when it's done iteratively, or are you imagining GPT Astra designing GPT Galactia, which starts designing GPT Oh-My-God-ica before it has finished being created itself?
  • 0x63_Problems 12d ago
    I think it's only recursive from the perspective of the humans, i.e. they design Astra, which itself as part of its deployment designs Galactica, etc. So humans develop things one after the other, but when the thing itself starts developing new things, those are happening 'recursively' in its scope.
  • itishappy 12d ago
    That sounds more iterative than recursive. Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel. Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.
    • HarHarVeryFunny 12d ago
      You can search in parallel, but a depth N search can only become a depth N+1 search after the depth N is done (i.e. sequentially). In any case the name RSI has stuck - the idea doesn't change or make any more sense by giving it a different name.
      • itishappy 12d ago
        Because "depth" is recursive. You can search twice without waiting for the results of your first search: iteration. You can't if the thing you need to search for is the results of your first search: recursion.
        • HarHarVeryFunny 12d ago
          Here's the concept. Version 1 -> Version 2 -> Version 3 -> ... You can call it krispy kreme donuts if you want to.
    • josh-sematic 11d ago
      The “recursive” part comes from the fact that you have an AI which was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (…)))
      • HarHarVeryFunny 11d ago
        Sounds like "recursively" walking to the grocery store by putting one foot in front of the other (that put itself in front of the other (that put itself in front of the other (...)))