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frosty
Nov 16, 2008, 4:54:19 PM11/16/08
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Tronic wrote:
> The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of
> unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of
> machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]
>
> Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an "intelligence explosion",
> suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human
> intellect, they could improve their own designs in ways unforeseen by
> their designers, and thus recursively augment themselves into far
> greater intelligences. The first such improvements might be small, but
> as the machine became more intelligent it would become better at
> becoming more intelligent, which could lead to an exponential and
> quite sudden growth in intelligence.
>
> (wikipedia)
>
> holy moly
> The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of
> unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of
> machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]
>
> Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an "intelligence explosion",
> suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human
> intellect, they could improve their own designs in ways unforeseen by
> their designers, and thus recursively augment themselves into far
> greater intelligences. The first such improvements might be small, but
> as the machine became more intelligent it would become better at
> becoming more intelligent, which could lead to an exponential and
> quite sudden growth in intelligence.
>
> (wikipedia)
>
> holy moly
Yeah, it will decide our fate in a 盜econd... Seen it!
--
frosty
Tony Gravagno
Nov 17, 2008, 8:34:41 PM11/17/08
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>Tronic wrote:
>> The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of
>> unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of
>> machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]
>> The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of
>> unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of
>> machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]
"frosty" wrote:
>Yeah, it will decide our fate in a 盜econd... Seen it!
Funny how many people take this concept of the awakening of machine
intelligence as a given, but most people don't give humanity nearly as
much credit. I guess we know ourselves all too well. Familiarity
breeds contempt and all that?
T
Steven Davies-Morris
Nov 21, 2008, 7:19:34 PM11/21/08
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But will it send the governator to pay us a visit?
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