4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Current AI systems are much less capable at choosing research experiments than at coding experiments.

Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026

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“probably just like iteratively asking the right questions like if you can get the ai to like do any experiment but like you need to decide what experiments to do and like right now i think ai's are not very good at this compared compared to coding the experiment at all like whenever we talk about research they propose like a bunch of like miscellaneous things which are like very very tiny steps”
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