Former President Barack Obama talks about recursive self-improvement stage of AI.

(from "C-SPAN" YT channel, link in comment)

"I do not believe that this technology is overhyped.

The commercial benefits of it may be overhyped. You know, the valuations of AI companies may be overhyped. The technology itself is not overhyped.

What is happening right now is that we have reached this point of what's called recursive learning, where essentially, and we had anticipated this, but we're now seeing it, the machines are starting to be able to teach themselves. They don't have to wait for humans to start figuring things out.

And so, if you think about it as, let's say, humans are teachers and the AI models are students, as recently as, let's say, a year ago, 90% of the learning of these models was given to them by the human teachers, and maybe 5% to 10% they could fill in some gaps and figure stuff out.

In less than a year, maybe even less than six months, we're now at a stage where it's 50/50. And if the trend lines continue, the expectation is it might be 90/10."