I just finished Yudkowsky‘s and Soares‘ If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. As some of my readers know, I taught a class in the computer science department at UT-Austin for many years called “Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.” In fact, I used some of Yudkowsky’s material on Friendly AI in that class. Continue reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Progress in machine classification of images. The error rate of AI by year. Red line – the error rate of a trained human
A staff writer from the online news magazine The Daily Dot has written a story at the intersection of computer superintelligence and religion, Continue reading Superintelligence And Religion
On Superintelligence, Moral Ignorance, and the Hope for a Future that Remembers
by Joshua Shrode
It started, strangely enough, with a question about saturation divers — the people who live for weeks at a time in steel tubes at the bottom of the ocean, doing dangerous, technical work in total darkness, cut off from the surface, from sunlight, from the world. Continue reading To Birth A God
Nick Bostrom (1973 – ) holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (2000). He is a co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association (now called Humanity+) and co-founder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was on the faculty of Yale University until 2005, when he was appointed Director of the newly created Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He is currently Professor, Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School; Director, Future of Humanity Institute; and Director, Program on the Impacts of Future Technology; all at Oxford University. Continue reading Summary of Nick Bostrom’s “Ethical Issues in Advanced AI”
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Here is a reply from a computer scientist to my recent post about Ray Kurzweil‘s book. My brief reply is at the bottom.
There is a limit to computer intelligence arising from its database. Human beings require at least 18 years of experiences in order to learn the minimal requirements of an adult Homo sapiens. Continue reading What Computers Will Never Do
