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FOOM (also written "foom") in Al discussions is an onomatopoeia for a sudden explosion-like "boom," but used for a hard takeoff or intelligence explosion. en.wiktionary.org It describes a scenario in which anAl system rapidly and recursively improves itself, jumping from roughly human-level (or less) capability to vastly superhuman intelligence in a very short window-hours, days, or weeks rather than years or decades. The resulting system would be far smarter than anything else on the planet and
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