Ex-DeepMind VP Oriol Vinyals: We Haven't Seen Recursive Self-Improvement Yet
dawnsongtweets · x · 2026-09-25
Oriol Vinyals, co-founder & CTO of Discovery Loop and former VP of Research at Google DeepMind, argues that while self-improving AI abounds, recursive self-improvement hasn't arrived: the line is whether a system can rewrite its own harness and its own weights, not just its output. Berkeley RDI asks the community whether anything has crossed it yet.
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