Re: A Point of Inflection in Machine Intelligence
- From: "Just Playing" <gms2004@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Oct 2005 18:36:23 -0700
souvik1982@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Here is a conjecture:
>
> There exists a critical level of intelligence, K, beyond which a
> society of such intelligences can create at least one instance of
> intelligence, K', more sophisticated than itself.
How do you measure, quantify intelligence?
JP
Since by definition
> K' inherits the creativity, sociability and intelligence of K, a
> *society* of K' if created can generate a
> generation K" smarter than its own individuals. And so on ad infinitum.
>
> Before K, intelligence on a planet evolves through natural selection.
> After K, intelligence will develop by the efforts of previous
> generations of intelligences.
>
> (One may compare this point of inflection K with the point in history
> when language came about and brought with it the exponential explosion
> of technology on the planet. Each generation could learn from the
> previous.)
>
> Beyond K, I see the second explosion in the history of our universe.
> The explosion of intelligence, capable ultimately of largely colonising
> it eventually.
>
> I wonder, is there any logical reasons K can only be asymptoted towards
> but not reached? I wonder if man will reach this point. I wonder if
> that will be the last invention of man, after which he will be
> overtaken by machines in a matter of months.
>
> -Souvik
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