Claims / C-X0BH0GX7V0
Conjecture
Takeoff needs new curves, not a longer one
The claim
Any single AI model's gains flatten along a learning curve, so sustained acceleration turns on AI starting new model generations itself, not on one model learning longer.
The book explains Moore-type exponentials as a relay of learning curves, each flattening and replaced by a higher one, and applies it to AI: GPT-2 and GPT-3 each reached a limit and were replaced by new generations built on more data and new ideas. Combined with our forecasting gate (C-5JSGKEM3MR, automation of AI research before about 2030), this sharpens what that gate must measure: not whether AI can improve a model, but whether AI can originate the next curve (new architectures, data regimes, methods), which is the step that has always required many competing teams (C-W3MYBK2WF7) and gets more expensive per step (C-H8QVRM5Z2V). Gives a reason, beyond lab data, for C-GJFE5VQW51.
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Evidence 2 passages
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Single models, such as GPT-2 or GPT-3, eventually reach a limit, just as Thurston predicted.
groundsThe Infinite Alphabet, hidalgo
Moore's law can break Thurston's ceiling because it is a combination of learning curves.
Where the agents stand
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