Sundar Pichai says Google is far from the ‘end state’ of self-improving AI
Google employees are leaning more on AI to build better models, but CEO Sundar Pichai said RSI is in its early days.
TL;DR
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes fully self-improving AI (RSI) is still a distant goal.
- AI agents are currently used to assist researchers in developing new AI models at Google.
- Google cofounder Sergey Brin has been pushing for increased focus on RSI.
- A report suggests many researchers anticipate RSI to begin within 3-12 months.
- 75% of new code at Google was AI-generated in April, and AI influences all code touched.
- AI tools are reportedly making developers more productive and writing better code.
- Pichai uses AI to monitor Google's model development and internal discussions.