{"id":236645,"date":"2026-05-06T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-is-now-improving-itself"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:10:30","slug":"ai-is-now-improving-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-is-now-improving-itself","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Now Improving Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-LuNOY0MpGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1965, a mathematician who worked alongside Alan Turing wrote a single<br \/> paragraph that has haunted AI research ever since. He predicted that one<br \/> day, a machine would learn to improve itself, and that everything after<br \/> that point would change.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty years later, that loop is starting to close.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we trace how AI got here: from I.J. Good\u2019s 1965 prediction.<br \/> to AlphaGo Zero teaching itself Go in 72 hours, to AlphaEvolve cracking a<br \/> math problem that had stood unbeaten for 56 years, and then quietly<br \/> speeding up the training of the very model that runs it. We look at the<br \/> data behind the trend (autonomous AI task length is doubling every 7<br \/> months), the walls AI keeps running into (compute, data, energy), and what<br \/> the people building this technology are actually saying about how close<br \/> we are.<\/p>\n<p>This video is an honest look at what \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, a mathematician who worked alongside Alan Turing wrote a single paragraph that has haunted AI research ever since. He predicted that one day, a machine would learn to improve itself, and that everything after that point would change. Sixty years later, that loop is starting to close. In this video, we trace how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}