{"id":194224,"date":"2026-03-09T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew-usc-viterbi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:15:19","slug":"the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew-usc-viterbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew-usc-viterbi\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI That Taught Itself: USC Researchers Show How Artificial Intelligence Can Learn What It Never Knew &#8211; USC Viterbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew\/\">The AI That Taught Itself: USC Researchers Show How Artificial Intelligence Can Learn What It Never Knew &#8211; USC Viterbi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew\/\">https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/the-ai-that-taught-itself-usc-researchers-show-how-artificial-intelligence-can-learn-what-it-never-knew\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 14:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"viterbischool.usc.edu\">viterbischool.usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Surprising AI Breakthrough<\/strong>: A new study from USC Viterbi School of Engineering suggests AI can improve past its training data with proper methods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feedback Loop Success<\/strong>: Minda Li and Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari developed a feedback loop to greatly enhance GPT-5&#8217;s coding ability in the obscure language Idris.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Testing Obscure Language<\/strong>: The researchers chose Idris, a niche programming language with minimal data, to test their method, even though neither had prior experience with it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remarkable Success Rate Improvement<\/strong>: Initial success rate of GPT-5 on Idris coding problems was 39%, which was dramatically boosted to 96% through iterative feedback and error correction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Potential Broad Applications<\/strong>: The researchers propose this feedback-based strategy could significantly enhance AI performance across various domains beyond programming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implications for Low-Resource Languages<\/strong>: The method may enable AI to assist in translation for endangered or less-documented languages with minimal training data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Enhancements<\/strong>: Future work aims to make the AI model &#8216;smarter&#8217; 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