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Zuckerberg says Meta is now seeing signs of advanced AI improving itself (weird-ish) - C C - Aug 3, 2025
https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-self-improving-ai
EXCERPTS: It's easy to get caught up in the human drama of his talent hunt. But in the very first lines of a new public letter about his so-called Superintelligence Lab, the tech founder made a claim that's either a staight-up fib, a very generous reading of a situation, or a clue that he's closer to enacting profound change in the world than almost anyone realizes.
Specifically, the exec boasted that in recent months, Meta has "begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves" — a bold claim that Zuckerberg suggests is a precursor to "developing superintelligence."
Because the Meta CEO declined to go into specifics with that vague claim, it's hard to say exactly how revolutionary that progress is.
Taken at face value, "self-improving AI" has, to some extent, already been observed, though only so far in limited domains. Known as recursive self-improvement, this formerly-theoretical process involves AI systems that develop the ability to improve themselves without human intervention...
[...] If an AI really could improve itself in meaningful ways, it would be an immense accomplishment — and one that may well precede or even mark the beginning of what some experts call the "technological singularity," a hypothetical future moment at which technology starts to self-improve at a rate so rapid that it outstrips human understanding... (MORE - missing details)