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ELECTRONS IN METAL. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Let us count the ways. Speed. Our axons carry signals at 75 meters per second or slower. A machine can pass signals along about 4 million times more quickly.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

SELF-DIRECTING. “Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."" "Edward O. Wilson, Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge (1999) https://lnkd.in/dZFwhaZ View in LinkedIn

RECURSIVE ACCELERATION. “Once sophisticated enough, an AI will be able to engage in what's called "recursive self-improvement." As an AI becomes smarter and more capable, it will subsequently become better at the task of developing its internal cognitive functions. In turn, these modifications will kickstart a cascading series of improvements, each one making the AI smarter at the task of improving itself. It's an advantage that we biological humans simply don't have.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

FIRST INDIGENOUS SPECIES. “The precursors of autonomous agents are bots: the first indigenous species of cyberspace'. Bots are to software what robots are to hardware; algorithms rather than animated machines governed by rules of behavior." https://lnkd.in/dF3y7XC View in LinkedIn

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