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The speaker finds it difficult to distinguish AI labs' efforts toward direct recursive self-improvement from efforts to build generally intelligent models that generate revenue to fund subsequent large training runs.

Unidentified speaker · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026

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“Yeah, I think it's now hard to separate out like how much of the lab's effort is going towards like direct RSI versus like making generally intelligent models that they can continue to deploy to collect revenue to fund the next big training run.”

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