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I. J. Good
A British mathematician who in 1965 proposed the idea of an intelligence explosion, envisioning a superintelligent machine capable of designing more intelligent successors; this idea is the intellectual origin of the concept of recursive self-improvement.
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Oct 19
The idea of recursive self-improvement can be traced back to the intelligence explosion hypothesis proposed by I. J. Good in 1965 and to Jürgen Schmidhuber's formalization work on self-referential improving systems.
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