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The two researchers use Amdahl's law to judge the speedup limits of RSI: if the digitalized portion accounts for only 20% of the overall process, then even optimizing it to zero makes the whole only 20% faster; fields such as drug discovery and robotics are constrained by wet labs and the physical world, and RSI speedups get stuck on the slowest serial component.
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Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): Can AI Close the Loop on Optimizing Itself?
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