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Richard Socher
Co-founder & CEO, Recursive
Pioneered neural networks in NLP, invented widely used word and contextual vectors, and leads Recursive's self-improving AI.
RecursiveReal Alpha has cut 4 moments of Richard Socher (Co-founder & CEO, Recursive) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 26, 2026.
What Richard Socher said
- 5:41
Open-ended search can find ideas direct optimization misses
“And once it figured out how to do the attack, you then inoculate it, and then you ask it again.”
at 8:13 - 11:05
Banning self-improvement would require invasive surveillance
“I think it absolutely makes sense to regulate applications of intelligence, but not intelligence itself.”
at 14:04 - 0:29
AI researchers helped build Recursive's first coding model
“you have a community of AI scientists that essentially ideate, implement and validate ideas in an open ended fashion.”
at 1:43 - 15:00
A rejected NLP paper anticipated prompted language models
“the reviewers thought it was a ridiculously terrible idea to try to unify every single task of NLP”
at 18:21
- 5:41
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