recursive
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Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic, said in his newsletter this week that full recursive self-improvement will likely arrive in 2027, not 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It's hard to overstate how dangerous speeding towards RSI is," Wang posted in response to Coxon's resignation, referring to recursive self-improvement, which is a technique where software is designed to continuously teach itself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Both have begun to use their most sophisticated models to train the next generation, in a process known as recursive self-improvement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
This moment’s dilithium crystal is recursive self-improvement, used already in the lab to develop the next models, doing double duty to turn today’s tech dweeb, very pleasurably, into a high priest of the Eschaton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Unfortunately, it’s only a legend; the recursive title was dreamed up by the linguist Robin Lakoff for a satire of a linguistics journal.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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