1995: ideas & lineages
Selekoa’s 10 ideas & lineages records dated 1995, in date order, of 11 in all topics.
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Ideas & lineages 10 records
Dated to 1995 only
· publication · dated to the year
Drexler’s 1995 forecast comment argues that better computational and material tools accelerate further tool improvement, that a slow trickle of progress seems unlikely, and that computation and molecular machinery could reinforce each other while competing with other technologies. Recorded as bearing on the proposition “Intelligence explosion”. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Drexler’s 1995 forecast comment argues that better computational and material tools accelerate further tool improvement, that a slow trickle of progress seems unlikely, and that computation and molecular machinery could reinforce each other while competing with other technologies. Recorded as bearing on the proposition “Recursive self-improvement”. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Miller’s 1995 forecast comment treats the singularity as the uncertain centre of a cluster of technological events, and expects successful uploads and uploads running a thousand times faster to arrive at about the same time. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Drexler’s 1995 forecast comment argues that better computational and material tools accelerate further tool improvement, that a slow trickle of progress seems unlikely, and that computation and molecular machinery could reinforce each other while competing with other technologies. Recorded as bearing on the proposition “AI-automated AI research”. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Drexler’s 1995 forecast comment argues that better computational and material tools accelerate further tool improvement, that a slow trickle of progress seems unlikely, and that computation and molecular machinery could reinforce each other while competing with other technologies. Recorded as bearing on the proposition “Strategic or race compression”. Evidence ↗
March 1995
· publication · dated to the month
2 provision records of Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon
· publication · dated to the month
Tesauro (1995) names board games as a testing ground for approaches in "artificial intelligence and machine learning". Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Tesauro (1995) describes TD-Gammon as a neural network that trains itself as a backgammon evaluation function by self-play, developed to explore ideas in reinforcement learning, whose basic paradigm he sets out. Evidence ↗