What Anthropic Actually Said About AI Building Itself
In June 2026, Anthropic released a report called "When AI builds itself." The headlines made it sound like AI was on the verge of superintelligence in which machines were building better versions of t
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Lazar Tomić
GSI Darmstadt research intern passionate about Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence. Student + Author
Let’s discuss:
Would you call an AI hallucination a hypothesis?
We dismiss hallucinations as errors. But history is filled with ideas that initially looked wrong, absurd, or impossible.
If an AI generates a novel claim unsupported by its training data, is it merely failing or is it doing something closer to what humans call speculation?
At what point does a hallucination become a hypothesis worth investigating?
Or are we giving machines far too much credit?
I'm curious where you draw the line.