What François Chollet thinks about recursive self-improvement

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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1. 10 Aug 2026, 15:59 UTC

   Our readingCoding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.

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   Their wordsCoding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.

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