A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has been a fixture of computer science folklore since at least the 1960s. For most of that time, it remained comfortably theoretical. Now someone […] This story continues at The Next Web