A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.

Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind’s chief strategy officer, made the case at a summit at UC Berkeley. Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, […] This story continues at The Next Web