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Researchers build AI that can replicate and alter itself and I'm pretty sure that's an opening line from the original Terminator script::Aizip's breakthrough starts with sneakers and then...who knows

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

The core concept of the AI singularity is an AI that can make a slightly better version of itself. At the rate software runs, that can turn into a super intelligence very quickly by human terms. Iterated incremental improvement generally increases exponentially.