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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. … AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

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