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recursive

[ri-kur-siv] / rɪˈkɜr sɪv /
ADJECTIVE
returning back
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"We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable," the report said, while adding that it could arrive sooner than most governments and institutions are ready for.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

AGI, in theory, could reach a stage of recursive self-improvement that results in a loss of human understanding or control.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

"But, after carefully adjusting the network, we eventually realized the bottleneck was recursive automatic differentiation itself."

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Systems that require suppressing feedback or distorting reality have to fight their own optimization to stay aligned, and that fight gets worse with every generation of recursive self-improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

The peculiar charm of this idea—called preformation—was that it was infinitely recursive.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee



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