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Recursive functions are Turing-equivalent (Small tips to make middle and high school students like math 3)

A fact I recently learnedI recently finished reading a book on automata, and according to that book, Turing machines, lambda calculus, and recursive functions all have the same computational ...
nytimes.com

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...
Mashable

What is recursive self-improvement? Why AI researchers are worried

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known ...
The Times of Israel

Truth and Fiction about AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement

Argument about recursive self-improvement is loud, and very little of it is about evidence. It is about process. Everyone in the argument carries a picture of how a machine would go about improving ...
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The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake

The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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