The singularity, ASI, ie: crazy advanced AI

[Cavernio]

So this discussion should be centered around questions and ideas brought about from the pair of these 2 enormous articles, not just AI in general:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artifi...olution-1.html
the link to the second one is at the bottom of this page but also here
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artifi...olution-2.html

I have not read them in full but have done a full perusal of both.

I'm in the ASI will never happen category, or at least not have limitless capabilities. This is deemed as an unpopular choice by people in the field in the second article. Much like people cannot escape the confines of their mind or the universe, I do not think a computer can escape the confines of the logic that it was given, and that logic itself cannot lead to limitless knowledge. Basically, I think it will still run into the sides of a box that it cannot leave.

I might also argue that humanity and biological life as we know it IS the current universe's ASI since time is relative, and relative to the universe as we know it, humanity's intellect has developed extraordinarily fast, which just makes me think of the idea of infinite creation, a mirror mirroring itself ad infinitum.