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When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
What happens when AI begins improving itself, and then turns that intelligence toward science? Richard Socher, pioneering AI researcher and CEO and co-founder of Recursive, joins Matt Turck to explore the vision behind his new book, The Eureka Machine. They discuss why scientific progress may be slowing, how large language models can learn the hidden languages of proteins and biology, and why simulations, verifiers and autonomous experiments could unlock superhuman AI capabilities. The conversation covers recursive self-improvement, AI drug discovery and cancer research, hallucination as…
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