RSI Experiment Sparks Singularity Debate
KordingLab · x · 2026-07-16
This post discusses two main points:
- An experiment on Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): Researchers spent 8 days building an agent that automates research, which eventually outperformed their manually tuned harness on a held-out benchmark that took two years to optimize.
- A counter-argument suggesting that RSI yields diminishing returns, meaning a technological singularity is unlikely.
By juxtaposing an experimental RSI breakthrough with a rebuttal of the singularity narrative, the post sparks a debate on just how far models and agents can go through self-improvement.
Related event: AIDE² Self-Improvement Run Beats 2 Years of Manual Tuning(12 posts)→
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