Musing on AI from 1964

[Irving John Good] was at Trinity College, Oxford back in 1964. His paper, “ Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine ” could have been a topic for today, as we deal with machines that aren’t really ultraintelligent, but appear smart and think they are even smarter. He starts off with a bold thesis: “The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultraintelligent machine.” He also admits that we’ll need to understand more about the human brain and human thought to