nytimes.com

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...
scmp.com

The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake

The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying ...
CNBC

Why fears of AI self-improvement are causing ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic and OpenAI

Anthropic and OpenAI researchers raised fresh concerns about recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI helps improve the development of models. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have in recent ...
MIT Technology Review

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

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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GEN

Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map

The up-to-$12 billion artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration of Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary marked a milestone Wednesday when plans were announced for Recursion ...
TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
GitHub

rat_in_maze.py

# Check if source and destination coordinates are Invalid. if not (0 <= source_row <= size - 1 and 0 <= source_column <= size - 1) or ( not (0 <= destination_row ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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The Economist

How artificial intelligence got better at building itself

WHEN ANTHROPIC, an artificial-intelligence lab, debuts on stock markets later this year, it is likely to be one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. That’s because Claude, the company’s ...