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THE GOAL. “Self-improvement causes systems to converge to an architecture that arises from von Neumann’s foundational work on microeconomics. Self-improvement causes systems to allocate their physical and computational resources according to a universal principle. “ https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

PHASE CHANGE. Von Neumann: "There is this this completely decisive property of complexity, that there exists a critical size below which the process of synthesis is degenerative, but above which the phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can be explosive, in other words, where the synthesis of automata can proceed in such a manner that each automaton will produce other automata which are more complex and of higher potentialities than itself.” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.06512 View in LinkedIn

THE INFLECTION: "Once we have devised programs with a genuine capacity for self-improvement a rapid evolutionary process will begin...it is hard to say how close we are to this threshold, but once it is crossed, the world will not be the same.” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.06512 View in LinkedIn

UNSTUCK POSSIBILITY. “Vinge predicted that if humans could produce artificial intelligence systems with greater than human intelligence, then so could those systems, only faster. The resulting positive feedback cycle would result in an intelligence explosion, or singularity.” https://lnkd.in/et93mHw View in LinkedIn

STUCK MOTIF. “Crudely speaking, evolution "designed" male human primates to be hunters/warriors. Evolution "designed" women to be attracted to powerful, competitive alpha males. Until humans rewrite our own hunter-gatherer source code, we shall continue to practise extreme violence against members of other species - and frequently against members of our own.” https://lnkd.in/dZFwhaZ View in LinkedIn

HARDWARE LIMITED. “All human progress to date has been limited by the hardware we are born with, which is the same hardware Homo sapiens were born with fifty thousand years ago. "True" recursive self-improvement will come when we discover how to drastically modify or augment our own brains in order to be more intelligent. This would lead us to more quickly being able to discover how to become even more intelligent.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn

PROMISE OF RESULTS. “Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that a recursively self-improvement AI seems likely to deliver a hard AI takeoff – a fast, abruptly, local increase in capability - since the exponential increase in intelligence would yield an exponential return in benefits and resources that would feed even more returns in the next step, and so on.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn

ALGORITHMS. “Four concrete algorithms for recursive self-improvement. Meta-evolution; a weight change algorithm; a maze algorithm; a Gödel machine.” https://lnkd.in/eFPerd3 View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENCE. “Recursively self-improving AI is considered to be the push behind the intelligence explosion. While any sufficiently intelligent AI will be able to improve itself, Seed AIs are specifically designed to use recursive self-improvement as their primary method of gaining intelligence.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn

LOGARITHMIC CURVE. “Recursive self-improvement is the only type of improvement which has potential to completely replace the original algorithm with a completely different approach and more importantly to do so multiple times. At each stage, newly created software should be better at optimizing future version of the software compared to the original algorithm. As of the time of this writing, it is a purely theoretical concept.” https://lnkd.in/ds26vCY View in LinkedIn