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Comment author: jacob_cannell 10 June 2015 03:56:34AM 0 points [-]

Machine learning is already increasingly about automatic optimization. But it all depends on the task and training. Many layers of self-optimization on an image benchmark just leads to a good vision system, not AGI. Self-optimization is probably necessary for AGI, but it is not sufficient.