RSI is not happening [R]

A new paper argues that recursive self-improvement (RSI) is not on the horizon because current AI agents cannot conduct open-ended machine learning research. The study tested agents on accepted but unpublished NeurIPS papers, finding they could not complete the open-ended research tasks. The finding matters because RSI is a central concern in AI safety and capability forecasting.

A new paper I'm not a coauthor BTW -- I just found it interesting argues, basically, that RSI is not on the horizon, because current at the time the study was done agents cannot do open-ended ML research. Specifically, they took some accepted, but unpublished papers from NeurIPS, and tried to ge