Inspiring Tech Leaders - AI & Technology Strategy

Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) - Is AI About to Start Improving AI?

Inspiring Tech Leaders - AI & Technology Strategy

Show Notes

We spend a lot of time talking about what AI can do for us. But there is a much bigger question emerging: What happens when AI starts helping to improve the technology that creates AI? That is the idea behind Recursive Self Improvement (RSI). AI systems are already being used to write code, run experiments, analyse results and contribute to AI research. We are not yet at a point where AI is independently redesigning itself and creating increasingly capable successors without human involvement...

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