AIRecursive self-improvement’s history and the case for hardware that improves itself
Jürgen Schmidhuber claims he published the first concrete recursive self-improvement algorithms in 1987 and argues that software-based self-improvement has become practical.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber shares a technical note tracing recursive self-improvement (RSI) through work he says began with his first concrete algorithms in 1987. His overview covers self-modifying policies, neural-network approaches and the self-referential Gödel Machine. He says software-based RSI has become practical, but argues that full RSI will require hardware that improves itself in the physical world, too.
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Recursive self-improvement’s history and the case for hardware that improves itself
Jürgen Schmidhuber claims he published the first concrete recursive self-improvement algorithms in 1987 and argues that software-based self-improvement has become practical.