Tim Rocktäschel (@ rockt) has co founded Recursive, a new company aiming to automate the scientific method starting with AI research. In a launch post, he said the team in London and SF is building systems that can safely experiment on how to improve themselves. The bet Rocktäschel, a Professor of AI at UCL Centre for AI, framed the thesis plainly: "create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open ended process of endless, ...