The speaker expects the fastest route to superintelligence to be gradual automation of more of the AI research process, rather than a single leap in which humans invent new paradigms unaided; he expects this automation to accelerate the arrival of new paradigms.

“The most informative thing to look at, and the reason for that is because I don't think that the fastest way to get to super intelligence is in a single leap where humans come up with the new paradigms in their own brains.”

“I think rather it's going to be this more gradual process where humans automate more of the AI research process and then that gets us to the new paradigms fast.”