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Charlie O’Neill
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Dwarkesh PatelJohn SchulmanBeren MillidgeCharlie O’Neill
Researchers converge on 1–3 years for a month-long remote white-collar worker, 2 years for 10× AI-researcher productivity, and 3–10 years for dominance across computer-based work.Distillation and deployment feedback could erode frontier-lab moats, while data drove 12.0× versus 3.7× of 2019-to-now pre-training efficiency gains.Whether RSI outpaces non-stationary work depends on unresolved continual learning, sim-to-real transfer, and dwindling frontier data.