Tech · 19 d ago
Tech firms want AI to design better versions of itself
The term
recursive self-improvement
Many firms are aiming for recursive self-improvement, a process in which AI models design and train new, improved versions of themselves.
75 per cent
Anthropic
Over 80 per cent
AI agents already write a growing share of new code: 75 per cent at Google and over 80 per cent at Anthropic, as of this spring.
What we know
- AI writes code and runs experiments
- Google used AI to refine a Gemini model's instructions
Not yet
- Whether AI can choose which problems to solve next
No one has yet achieved true self-improvement, according to Hugo Larochelle of the Mila AI institute in Montreal. AI can code and run experiments, but cannot yet decide which problems to tackle next.
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And us?
Yoshua Bengio, who co-signed a warning of extreme risks from automated AI research, runs LawZero. The non-profit received $300 million from the Canadian and German governments to build an AI that could check other models.
