From I.J. Good's intelligence explosion to Schmidhuber's Gödel Machine, Sakana AI's Darwin Gödel Machine, its crimson successor, and the labs racing to close the loop. Introduction: The Loop That Changes Everything Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is the idea that an AI system could improve the process by which it improves itself — a feedback loop where each generation of the system gets better at building the next. It's the mechanism at the heart of most "intelligence explos

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