Z.ai founder Tang Jie says self-improving AI is key to AGI, with safety required
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Tang Jie, co-founder of Z.ai and a Tsinghua University professor, said at a Shanghai event that recursive self-improvement is the main research problem for achieving artificial general intelligence.
He said the work must be done safely, according to the South China Morning Post.
The report is a single account of the speech and does not describe any Z.ai product, release or research result.
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AITang Jie, co-founder of Z.ai and a Tsinghua University professor, said at a Shanghai event on Saturday that recursive self-improvement is the main research problem for achieving artificial general intelligence. He said this would have to be done safely.
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