recursive
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"But, after carefully adjusting the network, we eventually realized the bottleneck was recursive automatic differentiation itself."
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
Systems that require suppressing feedback or distorting reality have to fight their own optimization to stay aligned, and that fight gets worse with every generation of recursive self-improvement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we’ve heard a lot of recursive testimony over the past week, and I think it’s safe to say we’ve all learned a lot about A.I.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023
These recursive efforts were not, however, acts of simple repetition; they reflected an urge to dig ever deeper into subjects that mattered to him most.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2023
Unfortunately, it’s only a legend; the recursive title was dreamed up by the linguist Robin Lakoff for a satire of a linguistics journal.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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