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For over a year, Google has been running an AI called AlphaEvolve with a single mission: improve the company that built it. It has saved Google close to two billion dollars, redesigned part of their next chip, and made the training of its own successor faster. Then, in the summer of 2026, math problems that had resisted humanity since 1939 began falling to AI within hours, and Elon Musk and Sam Altman both declared that the Singularity has already begun. This documentary examines whether they're right. Every claim in this video comes from published research and primary sources: Google DeepMind's own reports, peer-reviewed papers, METR's measurement data, verification write-ups by Fields Medal winners, and the published work of a Nobel Prize-winning economist who disagrees with all of it. This isn't a prediction about some far-off future. It's an audit of what's happening right now. In this video, we cover: The experiment Google ran on itself, and the two billion dollars it quietly recovers every year Why the chip inside Google's next AI was partly designed by an AI The 23-year-old ******* who cracked a 60-year-old math problem with a single prompt The AI announcement so embarrassing an OpenAI executive deleted it The test where ordinary humans score 100% and the world's best AI scores less than 1% Why the last technological revolution was invisible for 40 years, and the three signs this one has truly arrived ⏱️Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro 0:28 – What is the Singularity? 01:30 – Where does it come from? 02:05 - Google’s Experiment 04:02 - Darwin Goedel Machine 04:42 - Mathematics 06:24 - METR Tests 08:01 - Not everyone agrees 10:07 - The Money Aspect 10:57 - Technology takes time :bell: Subscribe for more AI documentaries :hammer_and_wrench: Explore 50,000+ AI tools: https://theresanaiforthat.com 📚 RESOURCES & FURTHER READING GOOGLE DEEPMIND AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (Google DeepMind Blog, May 2025) https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ AlphaEvolve: Scaling impact across fields (Google DeepMind Blog, 2026) https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/ SELF-IMPROVING AI Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents (arXiv, May 2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954 Anthropic CEO says 90% of code at the company is written by AI (Fortune via AOL, October 2025) https://www.aol.com/articles/anthropic-ceo-says-90-code-030401205.html THE MATH DISCOVERIES Remarks on the disproof of the unit distance conjecture (arXiv, May 2026) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.20695 AI solved a mathematical problem that had stumped the world's best minds for decades (Forbes, April 2026) https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/04/17/ai-solved-a-mathematical-problem-that-had-stumped-the-worlds-best-minds-for-decades/ METR: THE CAPABILITY CURVES Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks (METR, March 2025) https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/ Time Horizon 1.1 (METR, January 2026) https://metr.org/blog/2026-1-29-time-horizon-1-1/ THE SKEPTICS The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, Daron Acemoglu (NBER Working Paper 32487, 2024) https://www.nber.org/papers/w32487 ARC-AGI-3: Frontier AI scored less than 1% (Medium, March 2026) https://medium.com/@AdithyaGiridharan/arc-agi-3-dropped-and-frontier-ai-scored-less-than-1-90cd70e65a61 THE DECLARATIONS Elon Musk: "We are in the Singularity" (X, July 22, 2026) https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079839398959697982 The Gentle Singularity, Sam Altman (Personal Blog, June 2025) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity THE HISTORY The Dynamo and the Computer, Paul A. David (American Economic Review, May 1990) https://gwern.net/doc/economics/automation/1990-david.pdfGoogle DeepMindAlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithmsNew AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluatorsMay 14th, 2025Google DeepMindAlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fieldsDiscover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.May 7th