Shane Legg's visionary 2008 PhD dissertation 'Machine Super Intelligence' resurfaces online
burkov · x · 2026-09-23
Kirk Borne shared a link to Machine Super Intelligence, Shane Legg's 2008 PhD dissertation written nearly a decade before he co-founded DeepMind. The paper offered early, forward-looking thinking on defining and measuring machine superintelligence, and is being recirculated as a piece of AI history worth reading in full.
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