Logan Kilpatrick appears in the corpus as ‘Google’s Logan Kilpatrick’; his own X profile describes him as a member of technical staff working on Gemini, Google AI Studio, the Gemini API and Kaggle. He is a serial forecaster of the loop: he suggested superintelligence would arrive as existing weights unlocked by scaffolding, called 2026 the year of embodied AI, warned that the compute gap grows daily and posted then deleted a robotics claim. In the recursive-self-improvement cluster he supplies the prediction, beside the labs’ job listings read as a roadmap, that automating AI research will come to look like data cleaning.
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Logan Kilpatrick
American software engineer whom the newsletter consistently identifies as Google's, a recurring forecaster in the corpus, here predicting that automating AI research will come to look like data cleaning.
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