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In July, a London-based AI company posted a tweet that received about 1.8 million views and claimed to demonstrate the first evidence of recursive self-improvement.
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“So back in July,”
“a new AI company based in London posted a very viral tweet on Twitter. It got about 1.8 million views,”
“claiming to demonstrate the first evidence of recursive self-improvement.”Play from 0:10Report a misattribution
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