Comment by RandomLensman
3 years ago
Maybe we can or cannot build such a thing. We have no natural example for some exponentially self improving intelligence.
We also cannot build living animals from scratch or are anywhere close to it - maybe some forms of AI are much tougher to do than we think.
If you take a step back and look at computing in general as some amorphous evolving entity, it can be said the Machines are getting better and I would be surprised if it wasn’t exponential.
Talking out of my ass here, but my point is that I think The Machines(c) don’t look like biological and separated entities. I think it’ll look more like what we call corporations (hive minds) composed of a vast variety of different functional parts.