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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

The Decoder · Sep 11, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

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.…