{"slug": "ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an", "title": "Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion", "summary": "Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, said AI self-improvement will accelerate research by a factor of ten but will not trigger a sudden intelligence explosion, citing two bottlenecks: generating ideas, or \"research taste,\" and reliably judging results, plus reward hacking and the speed of light as further limits. Vinyals is now targeting those bottlenecks with his startup Discovery Loop, co-founded with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le.", "body_md": "Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas (\"research taste\") and reliably judging results. Reward hacking and the speed of light add further limits. Vinyals now wants to tackle these bottlenecks with his startup Discovery Loop, co-founded with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le.\n\nThe article [Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion](https://the-decoder.com/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-wont-trigger-an-intelligence-explosion/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-wont-trigger-an-intelligence-explosion/", "published_at": "2026-09-11 17:57:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 18:15:09.566735+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-safety", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Oriol Vinyals", "Google DeepMind", "Discovery Loop", "Jeff Dean", "Sanjay Ghemawat", "Quoc Le"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-deepmind-vp-vinyals-says-ai-self-improvement-is-coming-but-won-t-trigger-an.jsonld"}}