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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:06PM (#49589152)
It's not recursive when it's done iteratively, or are you imagining GPT Astra designing GPT Galactia, which starts designing GPT Oh-My-God-ica before it has finished being created itself?
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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by itishappy on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:49PM (#49589576)
That sounds more iterative than recursive.

Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel.

Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.

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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:57PM (#49589644)
You can search in parallel, but a depth N search can only become a depth N+1 search after the depth N is done (i.e. sequentially).

In any case the name RSI has stuck - the idea doesn't change or make any more sense by giving it a different name.

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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by itishappy on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:00PM (#49589673)
Because "depth" is recursive.

You can search twice without waiting for the results of your first search: iteration.

You can't if the thing you need to search for is the results of your first search: recursion.

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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:11PM (#49589776)
Here's the concept.

Version 1 -> Version 2 -> Version 3 -> ...

You can call it krispy kreme donuts if you want to.

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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by josh-sematic on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:41PM (#49590092)
The “recursive” part comes from the fact that you have an AI which was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (…)))
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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:00PM (#49591386)
Sounds like "recursively" walking to the grocery store by putting one foot in front of the other (that put itself in front of the other (that put itself in front of the other (...)))
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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI by 0x63_Problems on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:31PM (#49589418)
I think it's only recursive from the perspective of the humans, i.e. they design Astra, which itself as part of its deployment designs Galactica, etc.

So humans develop things one after the other, but when the thing itself starts developing new things, those are happening 'recursively' in its scope.

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