Google engineer says self-improving AI isn't close yet

Google engineer Haydn Belfield says DeepMind sees no measurable acceleration of AI research driven by AI itself.

AI writes more than 75 percent of production code, but about 88 percent of changes still need human review, and success without human input falls as task complexity rises.

A General Capability Index covering 123 models shows steady growth of about 0.1 points per month with no significant speedup, while more than 20 researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have warned of a possible intelligence explosion.