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SELF-EDITING. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Introspective access / editability. We humans have almost no introspective access to our cognitive algorithms, and cannot easily edit and improve them. Machines can already do this. A limited hack like the method of loci greatly improves human memory; machines can do this kind of thing in spades.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

PURE LOGIC. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Rationality...Human brains do nothing like optimal belief formation or goal achievement. Machines can be built from the ground up using (computable approximations of) optimal Bayesian decision networks, and indeed this is already a leading paradigm in artificial agent design.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

SCALABILITY. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Computational resources. The brain's size and neuron count is restrained by skull size, metabolism, and other factors. AIs could be built on the scale of buildings or cities or larger. When we can make circuits no smaller, we can just add more of them.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

BYPASSING SEQUENTIAL. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Serial depth. The human brain can't rapidly perform any computation that requires more than 100 sequential steps; thus, it relies on massively parallel computation. More is possible when both parallel and deep serial computations can be performed.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

ELECTRONS IN METAL. “How could an AI surpass human abilities? Let us count the ways. Speed. Our axons carry signals at 75 meters per second or slower. A machine can pass signals along about 4 million times more quickly.” https://lnkd.in/dC_XR5Q View in LinkedIn

SELF-DIRECTING. “Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."" "Edward O. Wilson, Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge (1999) https://lnkd.in/dZFwhaZ View in LinkedIn

RECURSIVE ACCELERATION. “Once sophisticated enough, an AI will be able to engage in what's called "recursive self-improvement." As an AI becomes smarter and more capable, it will subsequently become better at the task of developing its internal cognitive functions. In turn, these modifications will kickstart a cascading series of improvements, each one making the AI smarter at the task of improving itself. It's an advantage that we biological humans simply don't have.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

FIRST INDIGENOUS SPECIES. “The precursors of autonomous agents are bots: the first indigenous species of cyberspace'. Bots are to software what robots are to hardware; algorithms rather than animated machines governed by rules of behavior." https://lnkd.in/dF3y7XC View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE CODE. "The digital organism could acquire the best survival strategy and could optimize itself in an environment where available energy and space are limited." Simply semantic, or something more profound? https://lnkd.in/dNEAYvA View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. “When it comes to understanding the potential for artificial intelligence, it's critical to understand that an AI might eventually be able to modify itself, and that these modifications could allow it to increase its intelligence extremely fast.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn