Superintelligence

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A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the most gifted human minds. Philosopher Nick Bostrom defined it in his 2014 book Superintelligence as "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest". The term is now almost always used to discuss artificial superintelligence (ASI) through continued rapid progress in artificial intelligence, although its arrival through biological superintelligence (BSI) has been a source of interest among scientists, futurists, and authors. Recursive self-improvement, a scenario in which an AI iteratively improves its own intelligence, is theorized to potentially lead to an intelligence explosion and the creation of an artificial superintelligence. The first artificial general intelligences are likely to immediately hold an enormous advantage in at least some forms of mental capability which artificial intelligences already display, including the...

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