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The speaker's team did not claim to have achieved level-two recursive self-improvement, defined as an improver improving its own capability to improve within the loop.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“forty seven I think eventually it converge slightly faster than previous art loop but eventually the solution they found have a similar performance so that's also the reason we didn't claim we reached the level two recursive self-improvement which is like the improver managed to improve its own capability of thing”
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