LLMs may be capable of recursive improvement, but the self part still has a ways to go

"Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously. This is the smartest AI in the world.""[It's] better than PhD level in everything.""From the humanities to, like, languages, math, physics, engineering – pick anything. And we're talking about questions that it's never seen before... Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously." -- Elon Musk Patrick Boyle recommended a video from the House of El in his latest post. The video [below] reviews a number of recent papers related to RSI and concludes that, while LLMs are an impressive technology that has made remarkable advances, scientific research still needs the human touch. [Emphasis added.]Now look back at every impressive result that I just described.Darwin Gödel Machine tests its modifications against a benchmark, a benchmark with an externally measurable score. Right? AlphaEvolve evolves algorithms evaluated by execution. Is the new procedure faster? Yes…