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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by coldtea on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:11AM (#26645424)
>There's no reason to believe that intelligence is a quantity that can be improved ad infinitum ala singularity

There are reasons to believe the opposite, that there's a limit. Not just practical technological limitations (e.g. limits to CPU process, speed, power consumption, etc) but also absolute limits for information processing under certain physical constraints (in the Shannon sense).

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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by tim333 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:23AM (#26657527)
If you think of chess programs there isn't a limit to how many positions per second you can do - you can just run more machines in parallel. Thought at the end of the day you just get a slightly better chess machine. I imagine AI will go a bit like that.
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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by whimsicalism on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:59PM (#26666680)
There is a discrete and finite number of chess positions so there is a limit, but it might not be computable with resources available within the observable universe.
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