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Anthropic says AI-assisted development is advancing but fully autonomous recursive self-improvement has not yet been achieved. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: When AI builds itself · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:4024ea3ee8338922ee0e12df87c0c1f60756aeb9a65d630437ece7d134371f48

Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. This is called recursive self-improvement. We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable.