🆕 Humanity’s Last Invention — with @RichardSocher! @recursive_si is the latest neolab to burst on the scene with a $5B fundraise and one of the most impressive cofounder lists ever assembled to tackle open ended, self-improving AI for AI research. We dive into the Eureka Machine, Richard's 10 Spaces of Intelligence (so much left until AGI!), DecaNLP vs @alecrad and why AI peer review is broken, and why this may just be the last invention that humanity has to do on our own. Timestamps 00:00:00 The Eureka Machine and Superintelligence 00:02:23 AI Optimism, Slow Takeoff, and Regulation 00:07:56 AI Safety, Reward Hacking, and Anthropic’s Constitution 00:11:49 Alignment, Personalization, and Open Source AI 00:15:46 Why Richard Started Recursive 00:20:03 Recursive Self-Improvement and the Founding Team 00:22:55 Are Today’s LLMs Enough? 00:29:03 DecaNLP, GPT, and the Rejected Idea Ahead of Its Time 00:34:38 Open-Endedness and Evolutionary AI 00:36:38 What Happens When AI Chooses Its Own Goals? 00:41:16 Superintelligence for Science 00:42:40 GPUs, Compute, and the Limits of AI Takeoff 00:45:07 Recursive’s Results: AI Beating Humans and Their Agents 00:49:14 Reward Engineering and Auto Research 00:53:12 The AI Economist and Simulating Entire Economies 00:58:07 LLM Simulations, Personas, and Mode Collapse 01:03:38 Recursive’s Roadmap, Agents, Search, and Finance 01:09:13 The Upper Bounds and Spaces of Intelligence 01:30:21 Goals, High Agency, and Advice for Builders