đ¤ The AI That Teaches Itself: Inside SEAL, the Model Thatâs Changing the Game
We just crossed a major thresholdâand most people havenât even noticed.
âĄď¸ What if an AI could learn foreverâwithout retraining?
Thatâs the promise behind SEAL (Self-editing Agents with Lifelong learning), a new kind of AI system that just made headlines in the research world.
Unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Geminiâwhich freeze their learning once trainedâSEAL doesnât just generate answers.
It rewrites its own brain.
Weâre not talking about fine-tuning on a server. Weâre talking about on-the-fly self-updating of internal weights, memory, and decision-making logicâin real time, without human oversight.
That makes SEAL one of the first truly agentic AI architecturesâa model capable of setting goals, adapting strategies, remembering past mistakes, and improving over time.
And yes, it raises enormous possibilitiesâand equally enormous risks.
đ§ Why SEAL marks a new era of AI
Traditional large language models are like encyclopedias: massive, impressive, and frozen in time. If you want to update them, you need another round of expensive training on billions of tokens.
SEAL is different.
Using a loop of:
Observation â Evaluation â Weight Editing â Testing,
SEAL adapts itself based on feedback, user input, and even task failure.
Hereâs why it matters:
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