India, Oct. 23 -- Google CEO Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence influences almost every part of the company's coding process, but believes fully self-improving AI systems remain a distant prospect.

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Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast with Alex Kantrowitz, Pichai said Google's researchers increasingly use AI agents to develop new models. However, humans remain closely involved, Business Insider reported.

"We are pretty far from the end state of RSI," Pichai said, referring to recursive self-improvement, in which AI systems contribute to developing improved versions of themselves.

"The right way to describe it is, you h...