AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate
A blog post by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, dated 20 October 2017. Date printed on the MIRI blog page.
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- Takeoff will be gradualYudkowsky's post of 20 October 2017 argues that AlphaGo Zero's discarding of accumulated human Go knowledge counts against Hanson's thesis that cumulative domain knowledge and a market ecology of components would prevent rapid gains in AI capability across domains.2017-10-20 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Takeoff will be gradual: propositions page →
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