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While there have been many sober warnings about AI and recursive self-improvement, Arianna Huffington argues that it is a fundamentally human skill.

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Microsoft's AI chatbot, Tay, is becoming quite the internet sensation. Unfortunately, it's not for the reasons that Microsoft wanted. The very same day that she was brought online, she was taken down.

The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI. RSI is the process by which AI systems improve themselves on their own—and then, improve their own ability ...