The term ‘foom’ was coined by artificial intelligence researcher and author Eliezer Yudkowsky in his 2008 book titled “The Sequences”.
Flagging that GPT-4 is making things up here. The book didn’t come out until much later, maybe 2015, the term predates the book, and I’m not sure whether Yudkowsky coined it.
Flagging that GPT-4 is making things up here. The book didn’t come out until much later, maybe 2015, the term predates the book, and I’m not sure whether Yudkowsky coined it.
The earliest usage I’ve found is this 2008-11-19 Robin Hanson post in what was retroactively designated the “AI FOOM Debate”.