May 4, 2007: 1:37 pm: cure service groupAI

In 1965, statisticianI. J. Good wrote:

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.
April 11, 2007: 2:22 pm: cure service groupUncategorized

Welcome to the blog of the CURE Service Group of the Zetetic Elench - a fringe section of “The Culture”, a series of stories (by Iain M Banks) about a space-dwelling civilization of humans, aliens and Minds.

This blog wil coverthe themes of Artificial Intelligence, Post-humanism, space exploration and philosophy (the remit of the Cure Service Group inc ludes it all)