HN keeps throttling after 2 comments. Maybe they need more AI to detect bots instead of whatever algorithm they are using at the moment.
Back to the question at hand. How exactly do AI companies plan to build AGI if they can not optimize the AI development loop with their tools and techniques?
I don't have an opinion. I am legitimately surprised that very easy problems in AI research have not already been solved with some foundation model. Translating and optimization of code from one formal language to another seems like a very obvious application of AI and yet most of the work is still done manually.
I don't think AI development is complicated. It's just a bunch of functions with parameters which are optimized with gradient descent. The AI development loop is extremely simple and most AI "research" is basically stacking standard tensor operations and seeing what works. It's surprising there is no company that is applying AI to AI development since it is essentially a game with symbols and very well defined measurable outcomes.
Back to the question at hand. How exactly do AI companies plan to build AGI if they can not optimize the AI development loop with their tools and techniques?