Reframing Superintelligence

Eric Drexler has a document calling for a view of superintelligent systems where instead of focusing on agents or minds we should focus on intelligent services. This is, of course, the approach taken by industrial AI so far. But the idea of a superintelligent agent with its own personality, desires and motivations still has a strong grip on our fantasies of the future.

• Eric Drexler, Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence, Technical Report #2019-1, Futu...