AI improving AI, so that a lead compounds. The wager bets that whoever has the loop first would have it alone. Chapter 1.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 1 — The Stakes
What the race is for: the belief that a lead in AI can compound into a lasting advantage, how long such leads have actually lasted, and what a trillion dollars a year is being bet against.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapters 1 and 12, the first route
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Loop, the.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/loop-the (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-loop-the-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Loop, the}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/loop-the},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}