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December 4, 2024 - August 18, 2025
The Day My Butt Went Psycho, by Andy Griffiths,
Most controversies surrounding strong artificial intelligence (that can match humans on any cognitive task) center around two questions: When (if ever) will it happen, and will it be a good thing for humanity?
kibitzers
At times, Larry accused Elon of being “specieist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.
Hans Moravec
1988 book Mind Children,
“Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.”
Rodney Brooks, the former MIT professor behind the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner and the Baxter industrial robot.
Irving J. Good,
Future of Life Institute (FLI; http://futureoflife.org)
Skype founder Jaan Tallinn.
Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence
Vernor Vinge, who coined the term “singularity,”
the goal of AI should be redefined: the goal should be to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence.
scourges
What will it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence?
The goal of this book is to help you join this conversation.
anthropocentric bias
Qualia
Teleology
ours Cyborg
John McCarthy (who coined the term “artificial intelligence”),
the dismal track record of such techno-skeptic predictions.
Ernest Rutherford,
Richard Woolley
three separate misconceptions: concern about consciousness, evil and robots,
does a self-driving car have a subjective experience?
If you get struck by a driverless car, it makes no difference to you whether it subjectively feels conscious.
William Gibson’s science fiction novel Neuromancer.
http://AgeOfAi.org, where you can share your views and join the conversation.
the ultimate limits of life in our cosmos are set not by intelligence but by the laws of physics.
panoply
inexorably
Moravec’s paradox,
Hans Moravec,
a tipping point,
machines becoming able to perform AI design.
Before this tipping point is reached, the sea-level rise is caused by humans improving machines; afterward, the rise can be driven by machines improving machines, potent...
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universal intelligence:
solids have many long-lived states, whereas liquids and gases don’t: if you engrave someone’s name on a gold ring, the information will still be there years later because reshaping the gold requires significant energy, but if you engrave it in the surface of a pond, it will be lost within a second as the water surface effortlessly changes its shape.
each lowercase letter by a number that’s 96 plus its order in the alphabet).
information can take on a life of its own, independent of its physical substrate!
substrate-independent aspect of information
So far, the smallest memory device known to be evolved and used in the wild is the genome of the bacterium Candidatus Carsonella ruddii, storing about 40 kilobytes, whereas our human DNA stores about 1.6 gigabytes, comparable to a downloaded movie.
our brains store much more information than our genes: in the ballpark of 10 gigabytes electrically (specifying which of your 100 billion neurons are firing at any one time) and 100 terabytes chemically/biologically (specifying how strongly different neurons are linked by synapses).
Such memory systems are called auto-associative, since they recall by association rather than by address.
John Hopfield
NAND gate
if you can build enough NAND gates, you can build a device computing anything!
Norman Margolus
