'Close to the Terminator narrative': The dawn of self-improving AI
Source: The Straits Times
Published on: 2026-06-05 21:04
Self-improving AI systems could keep on building new, more powerful versions of themselves. Tim Rocktaschel, an AI professor at University College London, was teaching a class recently on a novel branch of research in his field when one of his students reached for a historical analogy to describe the work. "We're all kind of mini Oppenheimers at this point," the student quipped. Rocktaschel, who until recently was a top researcher at Google DeepMind, had to concede it was a fair assessment. The subject of the comparison to nuclear weapons research was the current race, by top artificial intelligence labs including OpenAI and Anthropic and a growing group of start-ups, to develop an AI that can do something unprecedented in technology: build its own successor. Emboldened by big leaps in AI's software programming capabilities over the past six months, tech industry leaders and research...
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