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AI is Already Building AI | Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
Are we truly on the verge of AI automating its own research and development? In this deep-dive episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt Turck sits down with Mostafa Dehghani, a pioneering AI researcher at Google DeepMind whose work on Universal Transformers and Vision Transformers (ViT) helped lay the groundwork for today's frontier models.
Moving past the hype, Mostafa breaks down the actual mechanics of "thinking in loops" and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). He explores the critical bottlenecks holding back true AGI—from evaluation limits and formal verification to the brutal math of long-horizon…
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