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What happened
A company called Weco AI ran an experiment where an AI was given one job: make a smarter version of itself. Over eight days, completely on its own, it rewrote itself seven times. Each version was better than the last — and it did in eight days what took human engineers two years.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
This is one of the most watched ideas in all of AI — the moment a machine can improve itself faster than people can. If this keeps working, the pace of AI getting smarter would no longer depend on how fast humans can work. It could accelerate on its own, in ways that are very hard to predict or control.
Takeaway
We may have just watched AI take its first steps toward teaching itself. That's either the most exciting thing you've heard today — or the most unsettling.
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