Look at it this way. Once long ago two kinds of work converged. We’d figured out how to make machines that could make more machines. And we’d figured out how to get machines to… not exactly think, but do something very much like it. So one day some people built a machine which knew how to build a machine smarter than itself. That built another, and that another, and soon they were building stuff the men who made the first machine didn’t even recognize.
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And, some of the mechal things kept developing, with tremendous speed, and became more subtle than life. Smarter than humans. Conscious of more. And, sometimes, more ambitious. We had little choice but to label them gods after we saw what they could do—namely, anything.
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
Yes, but I believe it is a bit weird for a Wikipedia article to state that someone is the originator of the Seed AI theory when he just coined the term. I wasn’t disputing anything, just trying to figure out if it is actually the case that Yudkowsky came up with the concept in the first place.
Here is a quote from Ventus:
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...and here’s a quote from I.J. Good, from 1965:
He didn’t coin the term “Seed AI” either.
Yes, but I believe it is a bit weird for a Wikipedia article to state that someone is the originator of the Seed AI theory when he just coined the term. I wasn’t disputing anything, just trying to figure out if it is actually the case that Yudkowsky came up with the concept in the first place.
Not the concept—the term.
“Seed AI theory” probably refers to something or another in here—which did indeed originate with Yu’El.
Presumably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_AI should be considered to be largely SIAI marketing material.