AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
The most likely reason we won't see explosive superintelligence by 2036 is not exogenous shocks, but technical bottlenecks in generalization, continual learning, and the difficulty of automating objective discovery—especially the transition from narrow, verifiable tasks to open-ended scie
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