Pedro Domingos: Recursive Self-Improvement Hasn't Happened Even Once
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-16
AI researcher Pedro Domingos pushes back on recursive self-improvement hype: it only counts if each new idea is better than the previous one — and that hasn't happened even once yet.
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