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PREDICTION. “Luke Muehlhauser and Anna Salamon argue in Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import in detail that there is a substantial chance of an intelligence explosion within 100 years, and extremely critical in determining the future.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

STEPHEN HAWKING. "The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race...Once humans develop artificial intelligence it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate." https://lnkd.in/duTkFfC View in LinkedIn

MUTANT SWARM. “According to the “cloud” hypothesis, pools of infectious isoform of prion protein (PrPSc) within individual strains or isolates are intrinsically heterogeneous; the heterogeneity presumably arises due to spontaneous variation in PrPSc structure. Upon changes in the replication environment, minor variants that fit best to replicate in the new environment receive selective advantages.” https://lnkd.in/dd6Nm4B View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “Is there good reason to believe that there will be an intelligence explosion?” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. “Remarkably, even though informative nucleic acid is absent, prions may undergo rapid adaptation and evolution in cloned cells and upon crossing the species barrier.” https://lnkd.in/d93kJqW View in LinkedIn

BY DESIGN. “The difference between chimpanzees and humans illustrates how powerful it can be to rewrite an agent’s cognitive algorithms. But, of course, the algorithm’s origin in this case was merely evolution, blind and stupid. An intelligent process with a bit of foresight can leap through the search space more efficiently. A human computer programmer can make innovations in a day that evolution couldn’t have discovered in billions of years.” https://lnkd.in/eFjahuP View in LinkedIn

UNIQUE SELECTION. “Prions are unique in that evolution and selection work at both the level of the chromosomal gene encoding the protein, and on the prion itself selecting prion variants.” https://lnkd.in/d4VfweY View in LinkedIn

THE OBSTACLE. “My own view is that the history of artificial intelligence suggests that the biggest bottleneck on the path to AI is software, not hardware: we have to find the right algorithms, and no-one has come close to finding them yet.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

ON BALANCE. “Good (1965) predicts an ultraintelligent machine by 2000, Vinge (1993) predicts greater-than-human intelligence between 2005 and 2030, Yudkowsky (1996) predicts a singularity by 2021, and Kurzweil (2005) predicts human-level artificial intelligence by 2030. Speaking for myself, I would be surprised if there were human-level AI within the next three decades.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn