“If you hit recursive self-improvement, that curve will go to hyperexponential, and that is a key part of the investment thesis, the scientific thesis, and a key part of why society’s investing what it’s currently investing in.” Google DeepMind Chief Strategy Officer Jasjeet Sekhon says AI infrastructure spending is financing a hoped-for self-improvement loop. In its strongest form, recursive self-improvement (RSI) will let AI design, evaluate, and train more capable successors with progressively less human supervision. The current evidence is still narrower: e.g. Google's AlphaEvolve proposes algorithms, then automated evaluators run and score them against human-defined objectives. Google says its resulting kernel changes reduced Gemini training time by 1%, an example of bounded improvement rather than autonomous successor design. ---- From "Berkeley RDI" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)