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self-improving - definition and meaning
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Julia kept her tone buoyant and optimistic, describing busy days filled with the kinds of self-improving activities Paul would find commendable.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
Given the history of AI and the distribution of computer expertise we should expect SIAI to fail in its mission, but that doesn't change the expectation that the creation of self-improving superintelligent AI would be an epoch-ending event that could not be reversed by humans without AI consent.
Robin Hanson Video, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Julia kept her tone buoyant and optimistic, describing busy days filled with the kinds of self-improving activities Paul would find commendable.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
This was a festival of doleful enlightenment, self-improving recreation.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011
Extrapolating these capabilities suggests the near-term emergence and visibility of self-improving neural networks, "artificial" intelligence, quantum algorithms, quantum computing and super-intelligence.
DK Matai: The Rise of the Bio-Info-Nano Singularity 2010
Then again, no one had ever created a self-maintaining, self-improving species of machines before.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
Extrapolating these capabilities suggests the near-term emergence and visibility of self-improving neural networks, "artificial" intelligence, quantum algorithms, quantum computing and super-intelligence.
DK Matai: The Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity 2010
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010
By night the protesters retire to their bivouacs, presumably to read some self-improving literature.
Railing Against ... Whatever 2010
By night the protesters retire to their bivouacs, presumably to read some self-improving literature.
Railing Against ... Whatever 2010
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