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Seed AiSeed AI is an hypothesized type of strong artificial intelligence capable of recursive self-improvement. The simplest seed AIs would self-optimize for efficiency and raw speed, as modern compilers do now, but these are not sufficient for the sort of open-ended recursive self-enhancement needed to create advanced, smarter-than-human intelligence. Existing program optimizers can examine their own code and rewrite themselves for greater efficiency, but they cannot do so recursively. The improved version of a given compiler may compile faster, but it cannot compile better. That is, an optimized version of a compiler will never spot new optimization tricks that earlier versions failed to see, will never innovate new ways of improving its own program, etc. Seed AI must be able to understand the purpose behind the various elements of its design, and design entirely new modules that will make it genuinely more intelligent. Needless to say, a true seed AI requires a vast amount of initial general intelligence, beyond that of any AI created so far. Creating seed AI is the goal of several organizations. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is the most prominent of those explicitly working to create seed AI. Others include the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, creator of the Novamente AI engine, and Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Incorporated. Singularitarians believe seed AI is the technology most likely to bring about a technological singularity. External links
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