nothing about "AI" is sillier than the idea of self-improvement. this text prediction machine, which doesn't have a model of physics because it's a text prediction machine, is going to predict the designs of new computer chips and manufacturing methods, and it's going to be correct, and this will happen incrementally as it makes itself into a better text predictor. being better at producing human-like text will also produce more accurate theories of silicon physics. sure. ok.