Month: September 2022

THE ADVANTAGES. “We list a few AI advantages that may allow AIs to become not only vastly more intelligent than any human, but also more intelligent than all of biological humanity." These include: Increased computational resources; Communication speed; Increased serial depth; Duplicability; Editability; Goal coordination; Improved rationality.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

THE RISK. “I'm a believer in the fast take-off version of the intelligence explosion. Once a self-aware, self-improving AI of human-level or better intelligence exists, it's hard to know how quickly it'll be able to improve itself. Its rate of improvement will depend on its software, hardware, and networking capabilities." http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

THE DELTA. “Genetic evolution is slow. Progress in artificial intelligence is fast. Only a handful of genes separate Homo sapiens from our hominid ancestors on the African savannah. Among our 23,000-odd protein-coding genes, variance in single nucleotide polymorphisms ("SNPs") accounts for just a small percentage of phenotypic variance in intelligence as measured by what we call IQ tests.” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

THE CYCLE. “The accelerating growth of germline engineering will be a comparatively slow process. In this scenario, sentient biological machines will design cognitively self-amplifying biological machines who will design cognitively self-amplifying biological machines.” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

FUTURIST VISION. "As the era of open-source genetics unfolds, tomorrow's biohackers will add, delete, edit and customise their own legacy code in a positive feedback loop of cognitive enhancement.” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

WILLFUL MUTANTS. “The ability genetically to hack one's own source code will unleash an exponential growth of genomic rewrites - not mere genetic tinkering but a comprehensive redesign of "human nature".” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

NO LOOKING BACK. “Whereas genetic change in biological humanity has always been slow, the software run on serial, programmable digital computers is executed exponentially faster (cf. Moore's Law); it's copyable without limit; it runs on multiple substrates; and it can be cheaply and rapidly edited, tested and debugged.” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

THE FUSION. “As the human era comes to a close, the fate of biological (post)humanity is more likely to be symbiosis with AI followed by metamorphosis, not simple replacement.” http://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/ View in LinkedIn

UNDERSTATEMENT. “Machine intelligence would be a development of almost unprecedented impact and risk, well worth considering now.” http://intelligence.org/files/AIFoomDebate.pdf View in LinkedIn

NO GEEVES. “Some people think an advanced AI will be some kind of super-butler, doing whatever they ask with incredible efficiency. But it’s more accurate to imagine an Outcome Pump: a non-sentient device that makes some outcomes more probable and other outcomes less probable. (The Outcome Pump isn’t magic, though. If you ask it for an outcome that is too improbable, it will break).” https://lnkd.in/dmZgBnF View in LinkedIn