[ExI] self-accelerating AI sf?

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On 07/30/11 11:14, Damien Broderick wrote:
> I'm doing a philosophical piece on the Singularity, and I'm deeply
> embarrassed not to be able to think instantly of any good sf stories
> that explicitly portray exponential AIs:
> self-augmenting/self-rewriting/selfbootstrapping-to-the-Singularity...
> Vinge's MAROONED assumes it, but we see only tangential glimpses,
> Stiegler's "Gentle Seduction" spreads it out over years, centuries,
> billions of years, as does Asimov's "Last Question." Stross's
> ACCELERANDO also implies it, but it's not what I'd call the Spike, with
> each self-transcending state occurring in roughly half the time of the
> previous jump. Greg Bear's BLOOD MUSIC is sort of there, but it isn't
> AI, and it uses magic QT.
> 
> What is my aging brain missing? (I know I'm going to kick myself.)

I just read Crystal nights by Egan, which is about an evolved society of
AIs ending in a physical singularity, but I'm not sure if it's what you
are after since it's a short story, the singularity comes too early, and
the goodness bit is highly subjective (I enjoyed it).