Insofar as I have seen it defined here, an intelligence is that which produces optimization given a certain amount of resources, and higher intelligences exert more optimization power that lower intelligence given the same starting conditions. Since many organizations, especially tech companies, do rather a lot of optimizing given their resources. Apple, a company of 60000 employees, made profits of 30 billion last year. Apple, effectively a profit maximizer, is doing rather more than 60000 independent individuals would (they’re making $500000/employee/year in profits). Considering that they are doing a lot of optimization given their starting conditions, I would say that they are at least a weakly superhuman intelligence.
Humanity is working to improve its own intelligence, and succeeding. So we have the “self-improving” right there. As we get smarter/more able, we are finding new and interesting ways to improve. Hence, “recursively”. Evidently, “self improving in such a way that the entity can find new ways to self improve” isn’t “recursive self improvement”. I really don’t know what the term would mean, and would appreciate if someone would enlighten me.
Insofar as I have seen it defined here, an intelligence is that which produces optimization given a certain amount of resources, and higher intelligences exert more optimization power that lower intelligence given the same starting conditions. Since many organizations, especially tech companies, do rather a lot of optimizing given their resources. Apple, a company of 60000 employees, made profits of 30 billion last year. Apple, effectively a profit maximizer, is doing rather more than 60000 independent individuals would (they’re making $500000/employee/year in profits). Considering that they are doing a lot of optimization given their starting conditions, I would say that they are at least a weakly superhuman intelligence.
Humanity is working to improve its own intelligence, and succeeding. So we have the “self-improving” right there. As we get smarter/more able, we are finding new and interesting ways to improve. Hence, “recursively”. Evidently, “self improving in such a way that the entity can find new ways to self improve” isn’t “recursive self improvement”. I really don’t know what the term would mean, and would appreciate if someone would enlighten me.