AI Self-Improvement Bottleneck Lies in Verification, Not Compute
Researchers debate that the true bottleneck for AI recursive self-improvement is the verifier, not compute. A mathematical limit has also been established using the data processing inequality, proving a hard ceiling for LLM self-improvement.
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