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EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE CODE. "The digital organism could acquire the best survival strategy and could optimize itself in an environment where available energy and space are limited." Simply semantic, or something more profound? https://lnkd.in/dNEAYvA View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. “When it comes to understanding the potential for artificial intelligence, it's critical to understand that an AI might eventually be able to modify itself, and that these modifications could allow it to increase its intelligence extremely fast.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “Can we build computers that are intelligent and alive? This question has been on the minds of computer scientists since the dawn of the computer age and remains a most compelling line of inquiry.” https://lnkd.in/d9cvzSB View in LinkedIn

THE INTUITION. “There's a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves. Here's how a recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a superintelligent machine.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

SEED AI. “Recursive self-improvement is the speculative ability of a strong artificial intelligence computer program to program its own software, recursively. This is sometimes also referred to as Seed AI because if an AI were created with engineering capabilities that matched or surpassed those of its human creators, it would have the potential to autonomously improve the design of its constituent software and hardware. Having undergone these improvements, it would then be better able to find ways of optimizing its structure and improving.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement View in LinkedIn

FUTURE CONTROL. “Self-improving systems are a promising new approach to developing artificial intelligence. But will their behavior be predictable? Can we be sure that they will behave as intended even after many generations of self-improvement?” https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

BIRTH CANAL CONFINED. “The human capacity for efficient cross-domain optimization is not a natural plateau for intelligence. It's a narrow, accidental, temporary marker created by evolution due to things like the slow rate of neuronal firing and how large a skull can fit through a primate's birth canal. Einstein may seem "vastly" more intelligent than a village idiot, but this difference is dwarfed by the difference between the village idiot and a mouse.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

ROOM TO IMPROVE. “And this is only a partial list. Consider how far machines have surpassed our abilities at arithmetic, or how far they will surpass our abilities at chess or driving in another 20 years. There is no reason in principle why machines could not surpass our abilities at technology design or general reasoning by a similar margin. The human level is a minor pit-stop on the way to the highest level of intelligence allowed by physics, and there is plenty of room above us.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

SELF-EDITING. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Introspective access / editability. We humans have almost no introspective access to our cognitive algorithms, and cannot easily edit and improve them. Machines can already do this. A limited hack like the method of loci greatly improves human memory; machines can do this kind of thing in spades.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

PURE LOGIC. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Rationality...Human brains do nothing like optimal belief formation or goal achievement. Machines can be built from the ground up using (computable approximations of) optimal Bayesian decision networks, and indeed this is already a leading paradigm in artificial agent design.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn