Artificial Intelligence - Muse And Poet

This snowball effect would lead to an intelligence explosion yielding a superintelligence surpassing all human control, understanding and comprehension. In other words, once we learn how to make machines that can reprogram themselves autonomously and are of course self-aware, they will reach the near infinite nigh-omniscience of the Technological Singularity. Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.