Schmidhuber Claims He Published First Recursive Self-Improvement Algorithm in 1987

Jürgen Schmidhuber responded to the ongoing recursive self-improvement (RSI) debate, claiming he published the first concrete RSI algorithm back in 1987 when compute was far more expensive, and argued RSI is now driving software progress.

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