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Good’s chapter argues that an ultraintelligent machine, surpassing people at every intellectual activity including the design of machines, could design still better machines, so that there would be an "intelligence explosion" leaving human intelligence far behind. Copy claim link
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Date 1965 · publication Claimed date 1962-10. The chapter’s footnote on p. 31 names talks in October 1962 and January 1963, a first draft of April 1963 and a slightly emended version of May 1964. None was retrieved, so the wording is not dated to them. Role Earliest located, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “intelligence explosion” Scope and limits The chapter gives no timescale and says nothing about concealment. For the explosion it cites its references [22], [34] and [44]: Good’s 1951 review of a book by D. R. Hartree, an IBM report of 1959 (RC-115) and "The social implications of artificial intelligence" in The Scientist Speculates (1963); none was retrieved. An Internet Archive full-text search for the phrase in items indexed before 1965 found only unresolved or misdated hits.
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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine ↗ Academic Press · 1965
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Paraphrase A machine that surpasses every intellectual activity of any person would also surpass people at designing machines; it could therefore design even better machines, and there would then be an "intelligence explosion", leaving human intelligence far behind.
Location in source Section 2, "Ultraintelligent Machines and Their Value", printed p. 33 (scan page 3)
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Source details and check notes Authors I. J. Good Version Scanned reprint, Advances in Computers volume 6, pp. 31–88. Repository metadata identifies ©1965; the mirror filename says 1966. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-17 Language English (en) Attribution Academic Press, Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and minimal attributed excerpts only. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the text layer of the inspected scan on 2026-10-06 (hash matched the 1996–2022 candidate search), and by a machine check on the page image of a second scan. Labelled paraphrase: the scan is a third-party copy of an in-copyright chapter. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Year of Advances in Computers, volume 6, as catalogued by Open Library; the current Crossref record gives 1966. The discrepancy is unresolved.
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