Forget ChatGPT. This AI upgrades itself. – Euro Weekly News
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By Tarek Salame • Updated: 24 Jun 2025 • 19:25 • 3 minutes read
Machines like the Darwin–Gödel Machine don’t just process commands — they evolve their own intelligence. Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto’s Images via Canva.com
Most artificial intelligence models learn from the data that we give them. They are trained, deployed, and for the most part, remain relatively frozen in time until someone decides to retrain them. But this is not how this particular AI works. The Darwin-Gödel machine (DGM) not only responds to commands but also literally rewrites its own code, conducts experiments on itself, and evolves. In May 2025, researchers launched one of the most radical AI systems yet —a self-improving machine that not only becomes smarter with use but also alters its own structure to perform better. It even copies itself, it has variations, deletes what fails, and keeps what works. There’s no retraining, and even no human engineer needed to step in to adjust.
What’s more notable is that it’s already outperforming the fixed code models on real-world tasks, and it’s essentially different from what we’ve seen in AI. That’s why its success challenges decades of AI, and how a machine that rewrites itself might one day outpace us entirely.
Until today, every AI system has a limit; it can only do what we tell it to do. Even ChatGPT, for all its capabilities, cannot fundamentally change its operation without someone at OpenAI modifying the code. But the Darwin-Gödel machine does change that model.
This idea is not new; theoretical Gödel machines have been proposed for many years, and AI systems that can rewrite themselves once they have proven doing so would benefit their goals.
This Darwin-Gödel machine, which employs the formal proof approach, is instead reliant on something far more immediate: trial and error, as well as benchmark tests and measurable games.
It’s more engineering and momentum that target themselves. Improvements to something that actually works are what make this machine the first of its kind in a lifetime.
At the corner is a population of coding agents, each one capable of rewriting its own source code, and these don’t work in isolation. There’s a digital ecosystem that proposes changes, runs benchmarks, and even competes for survival based on performance. Here’s how it works:
And the results speak for themselves; the performance is doubled on some tasks, and it’s not due to us figuring out a better algorithm – it’s because the machine has figured out how to improve its own performance. It’s a recursive process that improves and fuels even faster improvement.
Researchers tested DGM on the SWE bench, which is a benchmark for automated code repair. It started with a 20% success rate. And then that number jumped to 50%. It had no extra training, no outside help, just drew a recursive improvement.
What’s even more compelling is that it consistently outperforms models that don’t modify themselves.
This is a type of AI that adapts tools, refines workflows, and fine-tunes internal strategies, and that’s the breakthrough. It’s not just that this AI gets better, it’s that it gets better at getting better.
A quality that tends to something that we long feared or even hoped for, an artificial intelligence, the early signs of unwavering improvement.
Darwin-Gödel is different. It rethinks how it performs and rewrites how its own brain can improve. It changes the way we build intelligence. Now humans have driven every leap in AI from writing code to curating data and even redesigning models.
However, DGM suggests a future where the AI leverages upgrades to test itself and evolves faster than we can intervene. It’s both exciting and unnerving because the more autonomy these systems gain, the less visibility we have.
Of course, now the Darwin-Gödel machine is confined to code base benchmarks that are still sandboxed and supervised. That’s also painting away, a kind of AI that doesn’t wait for permission, it just gets better.
Today, that looks like smarter bug fixes and faster problem-solving. Tomorrow? It might look like something we didn’t design — and don’t fully understand.
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Tarek is a writer and digital marketer based in Barcelona, with a passion for turning complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives. With a background in marketing communications, tech, and content strategy, he has worked across industries ranging from cloud computing and fintech to fire safety and science. At Euro Weekly News, he contributes thoughtful, accessible stories that connect readers with topics shaping the modern world.
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