Look for the bottleneck
What could slow AI’s own research progress?
The panel debates whether research and engineering bottlenecks could constrain recursive AI improvement.
John Schulman · Beren Millidge · Charlie O’Neill
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What does this actually establish?
| Source status | Publisher chapter at 00:00:00 · Not an independently verified outcome |
|---|---|
| Speaker context | Researchers from Thinking Machines, Zyphra and Baseten · a debate, not a consensus forecast |
| What remains open | The participants disagree; this is not a shared timetable or a settled result. |
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Two ways this could unfold
Removing a bottleneck could accelerate progress. A new constraint could keep the overall pace uneven.
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