“If you hit recursive self-improvement, that curve will go to hyperexponential, and that is a key part of the investment thesis, the scientific thesis, and a key part of why society’s investing what it’s currently investing in.”

Google DeepMind Chief Strategy Officer Jasjeet Sekhon: The whole AI infrastructure spending is happening because of this expectation of self-improvement cycle.

In its strongest form, recursive self-improvement (RSI) will let AI design, evaluate, and train more capable successors with progressively less human supervision.

The current evidence is still narrower: e.g. Google's AlphaEvolve proposes algorithms, then automated evaluators run and score them against human-defined objectives.

Google has alreaday revealed how its resulting kernel changes reduced Gemini training time by 1%, an example of bounded improvement rather than autonomous successor design.

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From "Berkeley RDI" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)