recursive self-improvement

“That's one step, but then you need to take that engineering and use it to actually automate the AI research. You need to go from being able to implement the ideas more quickly to using that to fuel faster and faster growth in the breakthrough ideas themselves …”

“It's also conceivable that even when you do get recursive self-improvement, you still might not have An intelligence explosion. It might, there might be diminishing returns at some point. Presumably there are at some point, but it could turn out that that is c…”

“At the point where it is as good as an average human in everything, it might already be super intelligent in some key relevant domains for AI research.”