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Some AI research begins with an intuition about how models should improve and an algorithm that appears to advance that intuition.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“It's sort of more like here's an intuition we have about some way models should be better.”
“And then we also have some idea for an algorithm that seems to go a little bit in this direction.”Play from 31:58Report a misattribution
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