Turing Post traces the quest for recursive self-improvement from I. J. Good to Flint
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-10-29
Turing Post published 'From I. J. Good to Flint: The Long, Strange Quest for Self-Improving AI,' tracing ML's long history of automating parts of itself and Recursive's claim that its Eureka Machine helped build a fast local coding model.
- Adds Flint to the article's map of recursive self-improvement (RSI)
- Quotes Richard Socher (TechCrunch): asking AI to improve something else is just improvement, not RSI; Recursive's approach uses open-endedness to reach RSI, which no one has achieved yet
- Illustrates the classic neural architecture search loop: a controller proposes an architecture, the child network's accuracy feeds back to update the controller
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