AI models have learned to update other models' weights directly, says Brynjolfsson
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-03
MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson tweets that AI models have learned how to directly update the weights of other AI models to make them smarter — pointing at progress on learned optimizers and AI self-improvement. One-line claim, no paper linked.
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