Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BanditRants Email: banditrants@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BanditRants The evolution of AI technology illustrates an opaque destiny for mankind, a prophecy of a forthcoming future clouded in obscurity and peered into by very few seers delicately ranging from the giants of the tech industry, to academic heavyweights. The possibilities of a world inundated, or potentially governed by AI looms large. As we all know at this point, it is no longer a matter of how, rather a question of when. A query into how advanced the AI’s could become is actually a far more complex enigma when probing for these answers, oddly it may not actually be up to our species volition on how intelligent the AI become. A Seed AI, a term coined by Eliezer Yudkowsky an AI researcher, is a term to describe artificial intelligence that becomes generalized over many domains rather than one simple domain like self-driving cars, it has the ability to improve itself, by recursively rewriting its own source code without human intervention. Initially, this program would likely have a minimal intelligence, but over the course of many iterations, it would evolve to human-equivalent or even trans-human reasoning, or what theorist call artificial superintelligence the limits of which are unknown. This all may sound like science fiction, but recently the Boston based startup Gamalon utilized probabilistic programming to create an AI that can write and rewrite its own code, ultimately allowing the AI to increase its own intelligence. Although this self-escalation of intelligence is narrowed down to
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