RSI is the new AGI — and it’s just as hard to pin down

# What's New in AI This Week AI companies are chasing a new goal called "recursive self-improvement," where AI systems would improve themselves without human intervention—but nobody can quite agree on what that actually means or how to measure it. Think of it like trying to build a car that fixes its own engine, except we don't have a clear definition of what "better" even looks like. It's become the hot topic replacing earlier talk about achieving artificial general intelligence, but it faces the same problem: everyone's still arguing about whether it's actually possible.