New interview of Barack Obama. He talks about recursive self-improvement stage of AI.

"I do not believe that this technology is overhyped.

we're now hitting the hockey stick trajectory, where the models are going to get smarter and smarter and better and better at a much faster pace, at an exponential pace."

(from "Colgate University" YT channel, link in comment)

"What is happening right now is that we have reached this point of what's called recursive learning, where essentially, and we had anticipated this, but we're now seeing it, the machines are starting to be able to teach themselves. They don't have to wait for humans to start figuring things out.

And so, if you think about it as, let's say, humans are teachers and the AI models are students, as recently as, let's say, a year ago, 90% of the learning of these models was given to them by the human teachers, and maybe 5% to 10% they could fill in some gaps and figure stuff out.

In less than a year, maybe even less than six months, we're now at a stage where it's 50/50. And if the trend lines continue, the expectation is it might be 90/10."