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Ironically, this is one of the oldest ideas in computer science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vo
by mastazi 10y ago
Ironically, this is one of the oldest ideas in computer science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
- Houshalter 10y agoVon Neumanns constructor is about self replication. Not quite an AI that can self improve. I think the first person to put the idea forward was I. J. Good in 1962. He speculated that someday AIs would be good enough to do AI research better than their human masters. Then they would start making even better AIs. Which would make even better AIs, and so on. Leading to what he called an "intelligence explosion". He thought it would be "the last invention that man need ever make." http://web.archive.org/web/20160428183531/http://le-cretin-transnational.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Good-Speculations-Concerning-the-First-Ultraintelligent-Machine.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20160428183531/http://le-cretin-t...
- mastazi 10y agoParent's comment was about self-replication, I was addressing that.