recursively
- a word derived from recursive.
Example Sentences
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The prevailing theory is that the first to achieve AGI will secure a prize that multiplies itself: a self-training, recursively improving intelligence, growing exponentially and leaving all competitors in its wake.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
As psychology researchers at the University of Kent wrote in 2022, an individual's "subscription to conspiracy beliefs is initially inadvertent, accelerates recursively, then becomes difficult to escape."
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023
“I just basically chunked up all the files into functions and classes and groups of code, generated summaries of those code chunks and then recursively summarized the file,” Shobrook said.
From New York Times • May 31, 2023
At this point, singularists predict that we’ll get an “intelligence explosion” where A.I. systems work to recursively improve their own code.
From Slate • May 9, 2023
The reason for this is that we know how to combine recursively defined functions into hierarchical structures only in the absence of assignment statements.
From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2011
