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Sure, though you can't extrapolate future technological improvements from past performance (that's what makes investing in tech difficult). Just as one discove
by skndr 11y ago
Sure, though you can't extrapolate future technological improvements from past performance (that's what makes investing in tech difficult).
Just as one discovery enables many, human-level AI that can do its own AI research could superlinearly bootstrap its intelligence. AI safety addresses the risk of bootstrapped superintelligence indifferent to humans.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>Just as one discovery enables many, human-level AI that can do its own AI research could superlinearly bootstrap its intelligence. Of course, that assumes the return-on-investment curve for "bootstrapping its own intelligence" is linear or superlinear. If it's logarithmic or something other than "intelligence" (which is a word loaded with magical thinking if there ever was one!) is the limiting factor on reasoning, no go.