TechCrunchJulie Bort
Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
The filing seems to warn that the company is on the cusp of creating a model capable of recursive self-improvement (RSI).RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities.
This is one of the areas covered by our Responsible Scaling Policy, which sets out our plans to monitor and mitigate the risks as we approach what has been termed ‘recursive self-improvement.’”When the termRSI became popular earlier this year, many believed it was a buzzword or, at best, a goal too hard to achieve, define, or prove.But on Monday, Anthropic added new statements to its Risk Factors section, saying 1) it has already used AI to develop new models whose leaps in capability it didn’t recognize at the time, and 2) it may soon meet its own internal definition of RSI (bold emphasis…
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