Schmidhuber: RSI algorithms date back to 1987, new technical report released
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-17
- Jürgen Schmidhuber argues everyone now talks about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), but he published the first concrete RSI algorithms in 1987, when compute was 100,000,000x more expensive
- He released a technical note (IDSIA-9-26) covering RSI since 1987, self-modifying policies since 1994, and gradient-based methods
- He references experiments from 1992-2025 ([FWPMETA1-10]), including hardmaru's 2022 tweet on self-referential weight matrices that meta-learn to modify themselves
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