Anthropic says it is nearing recursive self-improvement capability
What happened
Anthropic has added a new risk-factor statement to its revised S-1A filing, saying its internal estimates suggest it may soon reach the Responsible Scaling Policy definition of "rapid acceleration in progress caused by AI", though it has not yet deemed any existing model to have crossed that threshold. It was previously reported that Anthropic was nearing recursive self-improvement (RSI) capability.
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- TechCrunch · AIAnthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
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