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The relevant form of AI recursion involves a system generating fundamentally new ideas previously produced only by humans and carrying out the broader development process.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“you could do your hyper parameter search faster or something like that and you could call that recursion if you want but that's not really what we're talking about here we're talking about like a system finds a fundamentally new idea that heretofore would only come from humans and that leveraging”Play from 30:36Report a misattribution
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