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AI can help with those tasks. Recursive self-improvement takes that a step further: An AI helps build a successor that is ...

Human brains can't compute endless loops, so we rely on public cues and shared signals—eye contact, rituals, news headlines—to establish common knowledge without consciously working through each ...

The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI. RSI is the process by which AI systems improve themselves on their own—and then, improve their own ability ...

Logan Kilpatrick said the feedback loop could help Google close the gap with other frontier AI labs with Gemini 4.

Tencent Hy4 preview uses a recursive self-improvement loop that boosted its own inference throughput by 31.8%. The 770-billion-parameter open-weight model runs on Apache 2.0 licensing, but API calls ...

What a 23% kernel speedup tells us about whether AI can improve itself and how to quantify the gains. In 2025, Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers algorithms, found a way to ...