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Google says self-improving AI isn't anywhere close

Google engineer Haydn Belfield said there is no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI at DeepMind, stating "self-improving AI isn't anywhere close." Belfield said AI now writes more than 75 percent of production code at the company, but 88 percent of changes still require human oversight, and Google's in-house General Capability Index shows steady growth with no sudden speedup.

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Google engineer Haydn Belfield says there's no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI at Deepmind. AI now writes more than 75 percent of production code, but 88 percent of changes still need human oversight. The company's in-house General Capability Index shows steady growth with no sudden speedup. Self-improving AI isn't anywhere close, Belfield says.

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