Can artificial intelligence build its next generation without human intervention? In a new study, Chinese researchers investigated what steps should be taken to achieve self-improving artificial intelligence (AI); That is, a system that can identify its weaknesses, improve the way to improve its performance, and finally create stronger generations of artificial intelligence. If such a cycle is realized, artificial intelligence systems may gradually be able to develop new and more powerful generations of models with less or no human intervention. However, the gap between today's limited experiments and a system that can actually improve itself is still wide.