Why a Sudoku-solving program looks smart: Recursion, backtracking, and the idea of 'trying from the most likely failure points'

I was thinking about a program to solve Sudoku.You fill a 9x9 grid with numbers from 1 to 9. The same number must not be ...

Recursive functions are Turing-equivalent (Small tips to make middle and high school students like math 3)

A fact I recently learnedI recently finished reading a book on automata, and according to that book, Turing machines, lambda calculus, and recursive functions all have the same computational ...
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Why fears of AI self-improvement are causing ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic and OpenAI

Anthropic and OpenAI researchers raised fresh concerns about recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI helps improve the development of models. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have in recent ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map

The up-to-$12 billion artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration of Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary marked a milestone Wednesday when plans were announced for Recursion ...
TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
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Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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Using Fibonacci Retracements to Identify Crypto Trends

Fibonacci retracement maps pullback levels at 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%, and 78.6%, derived from ratios in the Fibonacci sequence identified by Leonardo Fibonacci in the 13th century. The 61.8% level, ...
Scientific American magazine

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...
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AI Startup Recursive Superintelligence Secures $650M

Recursive Superintelligence has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a funding round led by GV and Greycroft, according to the company. The round also included participation from AMD ...