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10 Post author: lukeprog 07 August 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: omslin 07 August 2011 11:42:34PM 2 points [-]

Animated GIFs look unprofessional.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 August 2011 01:00:48AM *  2 points [-]

That is a problem. What do ya'll think of the new image?

Comment author: steven0461 08 August 2011 07:23:00PM *  8 points [-]

It doesn't make as much sense without the context of showing the parochial human picture first, and I'm worried that without that context it'll just come across as hyperbole. "The AI will be thiiiiiiiiiiis much smarter than Einstein!!!" It also suggests too strong a connection between recursive self-improvement and a specific level of intelligence.

Comment author: shokwave 08 August 2011 03:11:12AM 1 point [-]

Like. The big problem in explaining intelligence explosions is not explaining the process - in my experience, people grasp the process very intuitively from even my unclear explanations. The big problem is communicating the end result: recursive self-improvement takes AI off the far end of the human scale of intelligence. (The process might only be disputed as a way to reject the end result.) This image does a lot of that work right away.

Comment author: dbaupp 08 August 2011 08:03:43AM 1 point [-]

Where's EY?

(More seriously: that image looks much nicer)