A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion
A blog post by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, dated 6 December 2017. Date printed on the MIRI blog page.
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- The impossibility of intelligence explosionYudkowsky's post of 6 December 2017 replies to Chollet's essay "The impossibility of intelligence explosion", which it names.2017-12-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Chollet, The impossibility of intelligence explosion (2017): document page →
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- Takeoff will be gradualYudkowsky's reply of December 2017 to Chollet's essay argues that Chollet's arguments do not establish that recursive intelligence expansion progresses at a roughly linear pace, and that even Hanson would reject the idea that progress within all systems is confined to such a pace.2017-12-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Takeoff will be gradual: propositions page →
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