Once a distant ambition for technology researchers, the prospect of artificial intelligence models teaching themselves autonomously to be more efficient and capable appears ever closer to reality.
As the technology advances, developers say it is approaching "recursive self-improvement," or RSI, in which AI models find ways to improve themselves and build their successor. It could bring the promise of advances in science and medicine, tech company executives say, but also risks.
The uncertainty over where it all could lead is at the heart of growing fears about AI evading human control, and possible threats to humanity, which led several AI moguls to join last weekend in a call to slow down the technology's pace of growth.
Anthropic this week detailed how its model Claude is helping the company to develop the next, more intelligent version of itself. Claude is now leading 26% of Anthropic's model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task "end-to-end from a high-level prompt" while still being under human supervision. The models are not working completely autonomously—at least not yet.
Here are some key points about recursive self-improvement.
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