Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

Oriol Vinyals argues AI self‑improvement will be incremental, not an intelligence explosion. He says research speed can increase tenfold but bottlenecks remain: idea generation and result evaluation, while reward hacking and the speed‑of‑light add further limits. Vinyals co‑founded Discovery Loop to tackle these bottlenecks with help from former DeepMind colleagues.

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