Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals on AI self-improvement without intelligence explosion
former deepmind research head oriol vinyals expects ai systems to improve themselves but rules out a sudden intelligence explosion due to hurdles in idea generation and evaluation.
oriol vinyals, former vp of research at deepmind, expects ai systems to improve themselves over time but dismisses the likelihood of a sudden intelligence explosion. he attributes this to significant hurdles in generating promising ideas and reliably evaluating results. vinyals, who co-founded startup discovery loop with jeff dean and others, aims to tackle these challenges by automating the scientific research process. ai systems currently excel at coding and experimentation but lack 'research taste,' or the instinct for which ideas are worth pursuing. vinyals' startup will initially focus on forming hypotheses collaboratively between humans and machines.