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Re:Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter by benlivengood on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:48PM (#26651360)
> If we were able to build an AI of high general intelligence, yet entirely within the human range, we could deploy billions of them as almost entirely separate entities. There would be no single superintelligence, and yet the rate of human technological progress would reach an unimaginable speed.

What would stop someone from asking any subset of the AIs to build a smarter one? What would stop a nation-state from doing it?

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Re:Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter by Udik on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:38AM (#26659697)
> What would stop someone from asking any subset of the AIs to build a smarter one?

Nothing, and yet that would be a product of the singularity, not its cause. Also, a superintelligent (maybe invincible) AI acting against humans could reduce the rate of human technological progress to zero, therefore ending the singularity. It's two separate concepts, they have some interaction but should not be confused.

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