Economist's take on AI's recursive-builder race sparks pushback

The Economist argued that AI's decisive race is about which society can build recursive self-building systems, but developer Gerard Sans dismissed the idea as another empty buzzword, claiming the industry has been stuck in the Transformer paradigm for two years.

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