Key facts
- Tang Jie said recursive self-improvement, where AI systems get better at improving themselves, would make AGI more achievable.
- Tang Jie said the work would need to be done safely.
- Tang Jie said AI companies in the US and China are both pursuing recursive self-improvement.
Tang Jie, founder of Chinese AI company Z.ai, said at an event in Shanghai on Saturday that using artificial intelligence to build even smarter systems would make artificial general intelligence more achievable, though the work would need to be done safely.
He pointed to recursive self-improvement, in which increasingly powerful AI systems also become better at improving themselves, as a goal that AI companies in both the US and China are pursuing. The report did not give further detail on the event, its organizers or the companies Tang named.