Richard Socher

They have amazing compensation and they're doing that work manually.

So that will be the first impact.

The second impact will then be in software engineering.

where any company that employs software engineers is going to want to give them the superpower to essentially manage a team of thousands of people, all of whom are just constantly thinking about how to be better at a task and then be better at that task and improving themselves also.

That will then lead to much more productivity that is most immediately useful for organizations that have very clear rewards and objective functions, like make this battery better.

like cured this particular disease.

And I have like a loop or ideally even a simulation or some kind of verification mechanism to really know that I am making progress towards that specific goal.

And then, yeah, eventually I think any AI will likely be built by this.

And so then anyone who uses chatbots and so on in the future will likely benefit from this technology as well.

Yeah, so we have eight co-founders and indeed some of the most impactful people from Google DeepMind, from OpenAI, from Meta, from Salesforce Research and other places.

And I think we all came together because of the shared vision that we believe that recursive self-improvement is the fastest path towards superintelligence.

And we believe that that can ultimately lead to much more human flourishing as we cure certain diseases, as we solve more and more hard problems that have been very hard for human scientists to solve.

So it's about a shared vision and sharing also some of the ownership that we own this all together.

Yeah, so it's a different type of recursion there than my thesis.

A lot of us came to the same conclusion, but from different directions.

And yeah, to be honest, a lot of people in the AI community thought that when DeepMind was acquired for...

I think it was like 400 million back in the day.

That was like peak AI hype, right?

And it will just not go there.

And even I, like coming from Germany, German mindset is very often sort of critical and skeptical and like what could go wrong kind of is where you first go when something new happens and when sort of there's a lot of acceleration and growth.