A top Google product leader thinks a new approach to AI could offer a 'straight shot' to superintelligence

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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• Google's AI Studio leader thinks a "straight shot" to superintelligence is looking more probable.
• Logan Kilpatrick said on X that this was due to the success of scaling test-time compute.
• He said he believes AGI will still happen, but it will be more like a "product release."

One of Google's top product leaders believes a new approach to AI could offer a "straight shot" to artificial superintelligence, which...