"The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultraintelligent machine... 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, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control."
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Irving John Good, "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine", Advances in computers. Vol. 6. Elsevier, 1966. 31-88. Based on talks given in a Conference on the Conceptual Aspects of Biocommunications, Neuropsychistric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, October 1962 and in the Artificial Intelligence Sessions of the Winter General Meetings of the IEEE January 1963.
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