Schmidhuber Revives 2020 RSI Talk, Says His Systems Learned Self-Improvement Since 1994
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-18
Jürgen Schmidhuber resurfaced his 2020 talk on recursive self-improvement (RSI), arguing it has aged well amid today's RSI hype. His core claim: mainstream ML algorithms are designed by humans and limited by human cognitive biases, while his meta-learning systems since 1994 learn to define and redefine their own trial boundaries — something modern meta learners still rely on humans for — enabling unbounded self-improvement.
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