# I. J. Good **Entity class:** Person / mathematician and computer scientist **Relevant publication:** “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine,” *Advances in Computers* 6 (1965) ## Definition I. J. Good described an “ultraintelligent machine” whose capacity to design better machines could initiate an intelligence explosion. The proposition is a recursively improving design argument, not evidence that such a machine existed in 1965. ## Relationships - **Authored argument:** “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” (1965) introduced the intelligence-explosion formulation reproduced by [[wiki/Vernor Vinge|Vernor Vinge]] in [[wiki/The Coming Technological Singularity|his 1993 paper]]. - **Conceptual routes:** [[wiki/Singularity|Singularity]] and [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] distinguish recursive machine design from a demonstrated historical transition. - **Collection and article routes:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] and [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]].