Now this is the kind of research I like to see. LHC produced 29 picograms of gold over a 4 year period. One problem is that gold is worth $132 per gram and the LHC has an operating budget of $1 billion per year. The other is that the gold nuclei were moving so fast that they shattered into individual protons and neutrons nanoseconds later. So really they were converting lead into hydrogen. But it is still interesting.
I remember Mentifex and the 1 star reviews of his book AI4U on Amazon. I didn't know he died. Anyway I anticipate a couple of more Hutter prize results coming up, and I'm looking at the code trying to understand it. It looks like the current winner uses a 12 layer transformer with layers 4, 8, 12 non linear, and 3 query and 3 key value attention heads per layer. The latest entry that I'm still testing improves on that by another 4% by increasing the number of parameters from 6M to 8M, moving some of the training online, and other optimizations. I'm looking at Python calling Kimi transformers running on GPUs on rented cloud hardware, AI translated code from C++ to Zig and back to C++, and it's pretty overwhelming. It's not quite recursive self improvement when a large language model writes a small language model, but that's the trend. We aren't supposed to be able to understand the thing we are building. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 1:27 PM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, October 08, 2026, at 11:59 AM, John Rose wrote: > > Why bother? > > > Another, > > We know aliens and UFO's don't exist. > > A while back, I felt horrible, Mentifex would always post the same stuff > over and over. He was annoying but interesting with his Mindforth and AI4U > book. People liked his ASCII diagrams from way back then. I even put one > into ChatGPT and it interpreted it as good looking architecture. His code, > if you looked at it, was insane, the loops and nested conditionals OMG. But > he actually had SOMETHING up and running but it was... a wee bit lacking. > Then he kept posting his same links over and over. I couldn’t deal with it > at the time so I just blocked him from the list. Then there were complaints > of censorship from his other email address. That was during Covid. He > passed away soon after God bless his soul. Not sure if he took the jab. > > I’m not comparing you with Mentifex Matt. Your positives far outweigh the > negatives, but keep it up and see what happens. > > https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/ > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-Mf71ed8fa6727ab270ac85d1f> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-M1fb1e557e5c1396e4ae6890d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
