In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...
The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI. RSI is the process by which AI systems improve themselves on their own—and then, improve their own ability ...
What a 23% kernel speedup tells us about whether AI can improve itself and how to quantify the gains. In 2025, Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers algorithms, found a way to ...
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