Dataflow matrix machines (by Anhinga anhinga)

An interesting meditation exercise is as follows.

Assume that there is a moment (now or in the future), where the thesis that approximately 10 lines of sufficiently high-level computer code could generate AI is literally correct. Assume that a good chunk of Internet is available for such a process (although, it's OK to assume that it is a static snapshot of a subset of Internet within a sandbox environment; of course, the question of whether an effective sandbox for such a situation is at all possible is a whole separate long story, long discussion, and long study).

Assume that this chunk of Internet, in particular, contains a fairly large subset of public github, of arxiv, and of wikipedia. The meditation exercise is, then, what these 10 lines of AI-generating code might look like.

This is, obviously, a series of meditation exercises. Each particular exercise depends on your assumptions about the path by which you and/or community arrived at the imagined moment in question.