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Re:The impossibility of intelligence explosion by Veedrac on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:18PM (#15794008)
> AI will reach parity with humans before it exceeds them, agreed.

Intelligence is a hugely dimensional space, and AI constraints look very little like those on humans. It is unlikely there will ever be a time when AI is similarly smart, as much as differently smart to a similar context-dependent magnitude.

Re:The impossibility of intelligence explosion by Bartweiss on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:00PM (#15800848)
A good point, and I should have been clearer about that.

I do think it's reasonable to talk about intelligence 'growing', and consequently about one intelligence 'surpassing' another. But AI's methods of thinking certainly won't be human, and it may reach human-parity on different metrics at very different times. Hell, we're seeing some of that already: AI can do I/O and data processing at superhuman speeds, but humans can still extract much more knowledge from a small amount of data.