Answers.Body: <p>This is known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">intelligence explosion</a> hypothesis or <a href="https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">recursive self-improvement</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: The question is about **self-development** not self-improvement, so this answer is wrong, given that self-development does not necessarily imply self-improvement.
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Answers.Body: <p>Humans might create somewhere in the future a so-called ultraintelligent machine, a machine that can surpass all intellectual activities by any human. This would be the last invention man would need to do, since this machine is better in inventing machines than humans are (since that is an intellectual activity). Also, since humans can create machines as good as the ultraintelligent machine, this machine can create better machines, which in turn can create better machines, etcetera. This is known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Intelligence explosion</a>, and it is also called recursive self-improvement.</p>
  
  <p>The existence, let alone the development, if an ultraintelligent machine is still hypothetical. We are nowhere close to creating an ultraintelligent machine.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It depends what you mean by 'develop themselves' - in a rather limited sense, an online machine learning approach such as Genetic Algorithms 'develops itself' to provide better solutions.</p>
  
  <p>There is already a theoretical model that represents the <em>ultimate</em> concept of development: Juergen Schmidhuber's <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0309048" rel="nofollow">Goedel Machine</a> is constructed so as to self-modify when it can prove that this modification is optimal.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: The question is about **self-development** and not self-improvement or modification of the own source code. I suppose that the OP meant AIs that develop other AIs, not necessarily improving them.
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Body: <p>Is it possible that, at some time in the future, AIs will be able to initiatively develop themselves, rather than passively being developed by humanity?</p>
  
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Title: Could AIs self-develop in the future?
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ThreadText: # Could AIs self-develop in the future?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-03)
  
  Is it possible that, at some time in the future, AIs will be able to initiatively develop themselves, rather than passively being developed by humanity?
  
  **Tags:** philosophy
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-03. Score: 2
  
  This is known as the [intelligence explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion) hypothesis or [recursive self-improvement](https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: The question is about **self-development** not self-improvement, so this answer is wrong, given that self-development does not necessarily imply self-improvement.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-08-03. Score: 2
  
  Humans might create somewhere in the future a so-called ultraintelligent machine, a machine that can surpass all intellectual activities by any human. This would be the last invention man would need to do, since this machine is better in inventing machines than humans are (since that is an intellectual activity). Also, since humans can create machines as good as the ultraintelligent machine, this machine can create better machines, which in turn can create better machines, etcetera. This is known as the [Intelligence explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion), and it is also called recursive self-improvement.
  
  The existence, let alone the development, if an ultraintelligent machine is still hypothetical. We are nowhere close to creating an ultraintelligent machine.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: The question is about **self-development** not self-improvement, so this answer is inopportune, given that self-development does not necessarily imply self-improvement.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2016-08-03. Score: 0
  
  It depends what you mean by 'develop themselves' - in a rather limited sense, an online machine learning approach such as Genetic Algorithms 'develops itself' to provide better solutions.
  
  There is already a theoretical model that represents the *ultimate* concept of development: Juergen Schmidhuber's [Goedel Machine](http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0309048) is constructed so as to self-modify when it can prove that this modification is optimal.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: The question is about **self-development** and not self-improvement or modification of the own source code. I suppose that the OP meant AIs that develop other AIs, not necessarily improving them.  
  
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