intelligence explosion
Scenario where a sufficiently advanced AI improves its own intelligence recursively, producing rapid, uncontrolled growth in capability far beyond human levels.
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I. J. Good Defines the Ultraintelligent Machine and Articulates the Intelligence Explosion
In 1965, statistician I. J. Good, then at Trinity College Oxford, published 'Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine' in Advances in Computers, vol. 6, defining an ultraintelligent machine as one that surpasses all human intellectual activity and arguing that building such a machine would trigger an 'intelligence explosion.'