Recursive Self-Improvement
Emergent Garden
Jun 13, 2026 12:00
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Computer, load up celery man.
Can AI build AI? Yes, and it already is. Sort of. I showcase the ability of AI agents like claude code to perform AI research, to build and optimize machine learning algorithms. I put various state-of-the-art LLMs like claude Mythos/Fable into an endless recursive research loop and have them build a neural network that learns the shape of the mandelbrot set. It is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch. While we watch this loop, I express my thoughts on the concept of recursive self improvement, arguing that it is possible, hard, and dangerous.
Sorry for the bitrate issues.
Fractalsearch repo: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/fractalsearch
Neural Mandelbrot repo: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/mandelbrotnn
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~SOURCES~
Autoresearch: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
Mandelbrot Zoom: https://youtu.be/CfqHAOOM8Tw?si=_OOD2cQ7S7KNzQb7
Celery Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
Karpathy's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy
Self-building Cranes: https://youtu.be/oSyC8pxJdeQ?si=lRW7d5VT_kvtQ1eG
Darwin-Godel Machine: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954
Hashgrid Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05989
Anthropic's RSI Article: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
Fable System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf
My Music Guy: https://youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions?si=2P97LlROhNgQYOa-
"Equatorial Complex"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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