The Myth of Automated Genius: Why AI Agents Are Failing at Open-Ended Research and Slowing the Dream of Self-Improvement
Executive Overview The defining narrative of the modern artificial intelligence industry is an impending technological singularity driven by recursive self-improvement. Major laboratories have spent billions of dollars evangelizing a near-future where advanced models continuously rewrite their own code, optimize their underlying hardware, generate synthetic training data, and improve their cognitive architectures with little to no…