Full video: Obama on AI's recursive learning stage at Colgate University
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-20
The full video of Barack Obama's remarks on AI's recursive self-improvement stage is now on Colgate University's official YouTube channel. He argues the technology itself isn't overhyped (only valuations might be), and describes model self-learning rising from 10% to a 50/50 split with human-taught learning in under a year.
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