Google CEO Says Fully Self-Improving AI Is Still a Long Way Off

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Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence is still far from independently building more powerful versions of itself, even as Google increasingly relies on AI to develop its next models.

“We’re pretty far from … the end state of RSI,” Pichai told Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast Tuesday.

Fully autonomous RSI, or recursive self-improvement, would allow AI to develop increasingly capable successors without human researchers directing the process.

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If achieved, it could dramatically accelerate scientific breakthroughs, but some researchers fear increasingly powerful AI systems could advance faster than humans can understand or control them.

Days before Pichai’s remarks, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the company was “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill,” with researchers and AI models collaborating on new Gemini…