Re: Near-Term Futility of AI Research

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:55:02 -0500

Skye Howard wrote:
>
> Just wanted to throw out an extremely unqualified
> opinion here.....but maybe the problem with AI
> research is the limited environment that AI's were
> subject to.

Q: What is the most complex, rich, and beautiful environment mankind has ever discovered?
A: Code.

Any AI that can understand its own source code has all the environment it will ever need.

Sincerely,
Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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