seed AI

From: Rob Harris (rob@hbinternet.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 08:55:10 MST


>Okay, I gotta dispute this. I was the person who invented the term
>"seed AI".

The term has certainly got around a bit - about 8 months ago there was a
thread on a philosophy list discussing "Seed AI", and I understood it as a
flash term for what my AI lecturer referred to as artificial life.

>A seed AI is an AI that understands its own source code, and is capable of
rewriting that source >code.

How are you going to make a program "understand"? What is "understand" to
you?



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