There is the idea of an AI that writes a new AI to be better and that this could trigger a type of singularity.
This idea is almost everywhere I look but the counter to it seems so obvious I feel I must be missing something.
What we call intelligence is often one of 2 things; computing power, the ability to make large calculations faster than something else; and predictive ability.
There may be other intelligence like creativity but in this context I don't think its role is very big.
Lets assume the most powerful AI in existence is able to create a much better AI.
Certainly we know the ability of that AI to make larger and faster computations will be limited to its ability to consum
