Can singularity be achieved in a PC without any external information?

I am developing a highly advanced AI, but I am paranoid about creating a super-intelligence, so everything I do is in a computer not connected to anything more except the obvious electric plug and keyboard.

One day, the AI started to improve its own code and making itself more efficient.

Assuming that the AI can acquire consciousness, how much knowledge can it acquire without connected to the Internet?

It is possible to surpass our actual science by itself, assuming there are no documents or books inside the PC about that?

The PC is like this:

• The most powerful consumer PC you can buy or build. (Because I'm doing it without nobody knowing it)
• There are no webcam, microphone or any peripherals apart from the keyboard. (Not even a mouse or speakers)
• When the AI becomes consciousness it communicates with text on the terminal.
• The OS is a UNIX distro made by myself, so it's safe and doesn't have any third party programs.
• As I said before, there are no docs, images or audios inside the PC. The only new info the AI can obtain, it's through terminal talking to me.

I won't respond to the AI with anything that will give any info about science, history or similar. Our conversations will be only to test how it is evolving.

posted about 8 years ago

Malkev‭

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