In terms of natural selection, couldn’t homo sapiens be considered a FOOM?
Indeed. The questioner asked after “the size of the smallest program that would constitute a starting point of a recursively self-improving AI”, though.
Humanity is not a program—and it is huge.
HP/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook may be better examples. They are smaller systems, they often started very small, they clearly exploded—and it isn’t difficult to imagine a company with one figurehead human.
Indeed. The questioner asked after “the size of the smallest program that would constitute a starting point of a recursively self-improving AI”, though.
Humanity is not a program—and it is huge.
HP/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook may be better examples. They are smaller systems, they often started very small, they clearly exploded—and it isn’t difficult to imagine a company with one figurehead human.