Recursive self-improvement could take us from chatbot to shock in no time
VraserX · x · 2026-10-24
The author argues most people haven't fully processed how absurd recursive self-improvement could get: an AI improves itself, the improved version does it again, and again. At some point we might jump from "pretty impressive chatbot" to "what just happened" in a ridiculously short time — and he absolutely wants to witness it.
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