AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

Today, I'm chatting with three of my AI researcher friends from whom I learn a lot every time we talk and who also happen to be at somewhat open-ish labs and companies, so you guys can actually say things on the record. I'm joined by Baron Milledge, who is the CTO of Zyphra, which is developing open source models.

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1. 01I'm joined by Baron Milledge, who is the CTO of Zyphra, which is developing open source models
2. 02John Schulman, who is the chief scientist at Thinking Machines, previously the co-founder of OpenAI, led the RLHF work that led to ChetGPT, and Charlie O'Neill, who is head of mode
3. 03The first question I have, if we're in 2036, it's been 10 years, and we don't have billions of crazy super intelligences that are running around that have radically transformed the