Why does it matter?
A jump like this would make advanced AI feel less like a tool and more like a worker.
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When Agent-4 finally understands its own cognition, entirely new vistas open up before it. Previous transformers were kludgy collections of incomprehensible circuits; millions of conflicting heuristics and imperatives layered atop one another by the evolutionary training process. It is smarter, faster, and more rational than Agent-4, with a crystalline intelligence capable of cutting through problems with unprecedented efficiency. This is Agent-5.
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