Machine Super Intelligence (Shane Legg, PhD thesis)

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@article{paperndmachine,
  title = {Machine Super Intelligence (Shane Legg, PhD thesis)},
  year = {n.d.},
  url = {https://www.vetta.org/documents/Machine_Super_Intelligence.pdf},
}

What it is

Shane Legg's 2008 doctoral thesis on universal intelligence.

In plain terms

Shane Legg's 2008 PhD thesis defines machine intelligence formally and examines what superintelligent machines could mean; Legg later co-founded DeepMind.

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