superintelligence
5 articles
- recursive self-improvementWhat Is Recursive Self-Improvement in AI? Loops and LimitsRecursive self-improvement is a process in which an AI system designs a more capable successor, again and again. Here is where the idea comes from, what exists and where it stalls.
- ai valuesWhat Values Do People Want AI to Keep? Dear SuperintelligencePeople write to a future superintelligence about consciousness, beauty, kindness, goodness and life. Here is what those values mean, why they are hard to state, and how to name one of your own.
- ai box experimentWhat Is the AI Box Experiment? A Gatekeeper and a ChatThe AI box experiment asks whether a text chat alone could talk a Gatekeeper into releasing a confined AI. Here are its rules, the 2002 sessions and what they show.
- future aiHow to Write a Letter to a Future AI: Dear SuperintelligenceA letter to a future AI names one value, gives the reason for it and offers one real moment from the writer's life. Here is the shape, with a worked example.
- intelligence explosionWhat Is an Intelligence Explosion? Recursive AI GrowthAn intelligence explosion is a runaway loop where an AI improves its own design, each version faster than the last. Origins, mechanics, limits and lab race dynamics.