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CHANCE. “It seems unlikely that humans are near the ceiling of possible intelligences, rather than simply being the first such intelligence that happened to evolve.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

FRUIT OF THE WOMB. “What becomes of the carpel after fertilisation. Indeed, the greater part of carpel-related biodiversity becomes apparent only at this later stage, as the gynoecium transforms into a fruit.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

MACHINE INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE. "Humans may create human-level artificial intelligence (AI) this century. Shortly thereafter, we may see an “intelligence explosion” or “technological singularity”—a chain of events by which human-level AI leads, fairly rapidly, to intelligent systems whose capabilities far surpass those of biological humanity as a whole." https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

FEMALE HOUSE. “Upon fertilisation, gynoecium and ovule developmental programmes are switched to those of fruit and seed development. In Arabidopsis, fruit development is characterised by a dramatic elongation of the ovary, concomitant with the differentiation of specific tissues along the carpel margins. Unfertilised gynoecia fail to elongate and develop seeds, and will eventually undergo senescence.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

SMARTS DEFINED. “Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments. For our purposes, “intelligence” measures an agent’s capacity for efficient cross-domain optimization of the world according to the agent’s preferences.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

COMMON GENES. “An increasing amount of evidence suggests that the pathways regulating the basic morphological outline of ancestral leaf-like organs have been recruited to the developmental programmes of both leaves and floral organs, including the carpels, of present-day plants, although in the latter case, these have been slightly modified and positioned downstream of genes determining floral organ identity. For instance, mutations in genes affecting carpel morphogenesis also result in defects in the basic morphogenesis of the leaves.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

FOUR LEAPS. “Taking a long historical long view, we see steady total growth rates punctuated by rare transitions when new faster growth modes appeared with little warning. We know of perhaps four such “singularities”: animal brains (∼600 MYA), humans (∼2 MYA), farming (∼10 kYA), and industry (∼0.2 kYA).” http://intelligence.org/files/AIFoomDebate.pdf View in LinkedIn

GOETHE’S FAMOUS INSIGHT. “Leaves and floral organs most likely have a common evolutionary origin, or as Goethe memorably put it: Alles ist Blatt (All is Leaf; von Goethe, 1790). https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

NEW LEARNING. “Humans learn how to use language in a society of language users. No principles that might allow an artificial agents to learn language this way are known at present. We present work that addresses this challenge: Our auto-catalytic, endogenous, reflective architecture (AERA) supports the creation of agents that can learn natural language by observation.” https://lnkd.in/eTrCtpj View in LinkedIn

BOUNDED RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT. "Based on principles of autocatalysis, endogeny and reflectivity, the work provides an architectural blueprint for constructing systems with high levels of operational autonomy in underspecified circumstances, starting from only a small amount of designer-specified code -- a seed.” https://lnkd.in/ezNrCcA View in LinkedIn