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The speaker considers AlphaVol a possible single step of recursive self-improvement because it finds a better algorithm, which he believes is a matrix multiplication algorithm.

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“Of course there are gray areas. We think”
“It is one step of a recursive self-improvement because you find a better algorithm.”
“In that case, I believe it's like a matrix multiplication algorithm.”
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