[ref01] Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

• Author: Good, I. J. (Irving John Good)
• Venue: Advances in Computers, Vol. 6, pp. 31–88
• Year: 1965
• Cited in post as: ref [1] — the origin of the "intelligence explosion" idea (a machine that can design better machines → recursive self-improvement).
• Link in post: https://philpapers.org/rec/GOOSCT

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The famous passage:

"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make..."

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