Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · 2026-10-20
Big Technology Podcast: "we're pretty far from uh you know the end state of RSI"
“you're right Sergey mentioned um uh you know RSI being you know critical contributor as we are developing argon and but to be very clear today you know in a continuum of we're pretty far from uh you know the end state of RSI or something like that”
- Who
- Alphabet, Sundar Pichai
- Date
- 2026-10-20 Published time on the archived YouTube page.
- Evidence
- Not rated. A spoken statement in an interview, with no measured result behind it. how we rate evidence
- Replication
- Nothing to rerun. all claims
- Checked
- 2026-10-23, against the source page
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Also on the page
- He is answering whether there is "reasonable worry" about "pursuing this recursive self-improvement", after the host cites Sergey Brin on Argon.
- Big Technology's text of the interview, "lightly edited for length and clarity", renders it: "today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that."
- He describes today as "RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development", and says: "I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year."
- In the same interview: "The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement."
- In a separate interview on Alex Heath's Sources, he says "There's a lot of humans in the loop on these things", that "the whole continuum is shifting", and "I would expect the next 12 months to see continued acceleration because of RSI".