Why Can't Children Write Java or Python Even After Years of Scratch? — A Former JVM Developer Explains the 'Correct Order of Code Acquisition' to Prevent Middle S…

"My child has been attending a major programming school since elementary school for three years and can now create games ...
ABC News

Death toll in Indonesia's capsized Java Sea ferry rises to 64; dozens remain missing

Indonesian rescuers have recovered more bodies from the wreck of a ferry that capsized in the Java Sea two weeks ago ...

Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders

That’s what I’m not able to figure out,” said AI YouTube personality Mo Bitar in a video. The demos are fun, but how accurate ...
nytimes.com

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...
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The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake

The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI. Leading AI companies in the United States and China are increasingly focused on deploying ...
CNBC

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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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 ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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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 ...