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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

GIANT LEAP FORWARD. “For all of these reasons, the carpel was undoubtedly a major factor in the evolutionary success of the angiosperms, which diversified from a common ancestor that is estimated to have lived in the Late Jurassic period, around 160 million years ago (MYA), to form approximately 300 000 species alive today.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

CARPELS MAKE THE FRUIT. “After fertilization, the carpel tissues undergo further developmental changes to become the fruit, which protects the developing seeds and later contributes to the dissemination of these by a wide variety of mechanisms in different species.” https://lnkd.in/dbZEjuz View in LinkedIn

TOWARDS THE FUSION EVENTS. “Following pollination, compatible pollen tubes are guided with meticulous accuracy through the tissues of the carpel, specifically toward unfertilized ovules.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

THE GATE AGAINST INBREEDING. “In addition, the carpel provides a location for selective mechanisms that operate on pollen, such as self-incompatibility, which promotes out-breeding.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the female carpel of flowering plants, a structure that significantly advanced this group of plants in their evolution. View in LinkedIn

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