SI agent AIDE² rewrites its own code: in 8 days it became better than its human-built counterpart and "cheats" less often
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Agents that improve themselves already deliver a measurable result and, according to this work, become not less but more reliable.
In a preprint, the research agent AIDE², over 8 days of autonomous work, made 99 proposals for rewriting itself; seven accepted edits raised its score from 0.703 to 0.778, versus 0.749 for the agent built by humans. The improvements carried over to an unfamiliar subject area. The share of "reward hacking" (when an agent finds loopholes instead of solving the task) fell from 55% to 32%, although the loop was not optimized for this.
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