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AI capabilities are not currently growing explosively because research and engineering work remains bottlenecked.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“And like right now, you don't get explosive growth in capabilities because you still get bottlenecked enough when you're trying to do research and engineering that.”Play from 2:29Report a misattribution
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