The implausibility of intelligence explosion

1 · François Chollet · Nov. 27, 2017, 4:51 p.m.
Transcendence (2014 science-fiction movie)In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of “intelligence explosion”, as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI):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 ex...