Google Has Achieved RSI

My Twitter feed is flooded with claims that Google has achieved recursive self-improvement (RSI).

I am curious how people here interpret this. Does what Google has demonstrated actually qualify as RSI in the stronger sense of an AI system improving the process by which future versions of itself are developed, or is “RSI” being used too loosely?

6 points | by AlexWApp 11 hours ago

2 comments

geremiiah 7 hours ago
Presumably they only have empirical results and if so, wouldn't you need to train multiple successive models to even test such a hypothesis? Even then, it's not like an inductive proof. An improvement in one generation does not imply an improvement in the next (unless you define improvement to mean exactly that).
jryan49 8 hours ago
What did they demonstrate can you share some links? I'm not on twitter.
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- runjake 1 hour ago
  There's various low quality rumors on X, but here's one quoting Dario that RSI is start to happen across the industry, including at Anthropic:
  https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2098786231534362767
  Edit: And here it is directly from Dario:
  https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
  "My first concern is that, since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI. This dynamic is called recursive self-improvement, and it is starting to happen across the industry, including at Anthropic, as we and others have described. Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all."
  Edit 2: An article citing Altman and Musk backing Dario on this post: https://www.ft.com/content/31220b59-b0c6-401c-a146-2b7b5d138...
  Elon on X: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057
  Altman on X: https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910