Model Progress Nears Early RSI Stage
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-07-10
He believes that model capabilities are improving extremely rapidly, and that large models are already driving a portion of this progress. Based on this, he states it is increasingly difficult to make a convincing argument that we have not yet entered the early stages of Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI).
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