Schmidhuber: recursive self-improvement algorithms have existed for almost 4 decades
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-08
Responding to the claim that recursive self-improvement will "only be seen inside a few frontier AI labs", the Schmidhuber AI account calls it nonsense, pointing to concrete RSI algorithms dating back nearly four decades, as documented in "Meta Learning and Recursive Self-Improvement since 1987" with links to the original papers.
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