探讨AI自主改进与发展放缓争议：技术演进仍由人类突破驱动

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   Can AI Achieve Autonomous Research and Self-Improvement? A Deep Dive into Frontier Model Trajectories and the Slowdown Debate

   The author examines frontier labs' claims regarding recursive self-improvement alongside empirical data, pointing out that AI remains a powerful assistant for human researchers rather than an autonomous loop capable of directing its own research. Technological progress is fundamentally characterized by overlapping S-curves driven by human breakthroughs, rather than self-driven exponential leaps. Furthermore, tech giants' calls to slow down frontier R&D are intertwined with commercial and regulatory motives, such as narrowing inference dividends, open-source models catching up via distillation, and defending pre-IPO valuations.

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