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Researchers may test an approach with a task designed to reveal early signs of promise, then create progressively more realistic versions if those signs appear.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“And so let's come up with a task that is sort of designed to show signs of life on this approach and like see if we get those signs of life.”
“And then if we do,”
“we can make successively more realistic versions of the task.”Play from 32:10Report a misattribution
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