Gödel, Escher, Bach Predicted AI: Gradient Descent as the Ultimate 'Strange Loop'
AymericRoucher · x · 2026-08-10
The author references the 1979 classic Gödel, Escher, Bach, noting its prescient view that "Strange Loops"—rules that change themselves—are at the core of intelligence. The author argues that gradient descent may be the greatest Strange Loop ever invented, and the first mechanism to climb the axis of intelligence.
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