Researcher hails Recurrent Looped Transformer as 'dawn of Superintelligence', gets roasted for reinventing old architecture
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-14
- A researcher introduced the Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT), claiming it gives Transformers "infinite reasoning depth" and declaring "the dawn of Superintelligence."
- The claim was promptly mocked: a prominent ML researcher quipped that this is the Nth reinvention of the classic Transformer-encoder-plus-RNN-decoder architecture.
- The exchange highlights AI community skepticism toward grandiose framing of recycled architectures.
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