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Jul 24, 2023 · Paths to Superintelligence: The book presents three potential paths to achieving superintelligence: whole brain emulation (WBE), biological cognitive enhancement (BCE), and AI self-improvement.
Sep 1, 2015 · Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s latest book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, is a seminal contribution to several important research areas including catastrophic risk analysis, the future of artificial intelligence (AI), and safe AI design.
- Miles Brundage
- 2015
May 22, 2023 · It would be important that such an agency focus on reducing existential risk and not issues that should be left to individual countries, such as defining what an AI should be allowed to say. Third, we need the technical capability to make a superintelligence safe.
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- Baptizing Aliens
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By superintelligence, we are talking about intelligence that surpasses the typical intelligence of an average human being. How far it surpasses will have implications, potentially good and bad, for society. The possibility of superintelligence also has religious implications.Footnote 16 As newer and newer generations of superintelligent machines ev...
Omnibenevolence, or supreme love, is usually considered a major attribute of God, along with all-knowledge and all-power. Here, we encounter a particularly serious concern. It is generally understood in the monotheistic religions that the knowledge and power of God will be used for beneficial purposes. However, there is no guarantee that a superint...
The Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible’s book of Genesis provides an interesting lens through which to think about superintelligence.Footnote 21 In that story the human community attempts to build a tower to the heavens. In one interpretation, the human builders are trying to “be like God,” to borrow a term from the earlier creation story in ...
Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, the famous Jupiter Symphony, emerged from the combined sounds of horns, trumpets, oboes, flute, and strings. In other words, something quite remarkable and sophisticated emerged from simpler random notes and sounds arranged in a certain way. Turning from music to painting, train your gaze to one brush stroke on a Picasso, ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex, affectionately known as “T-Rex,” and all her cousins are long gone, their place taken over by more adaptable creatures in the sometimes-harsh evolutionary process. Could Homo sapiensalso become extinct? Apart from any theologically based insistence about how things have to be, the answer is yes, of course, human beings could be r...
Based on the prediction of experts reviewed earlier in this chapter, the religions, sooner or later, are probably going to live into a world where superintelligence is a reality. Even if superintelligence is not developed, discussion of the possibility is valuable as a thought experiment, given the increasing capability and prevalence of AI. While ...
In a widely publicized quote, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic branch of the Christian religion said the church under his direction would baptize a Martian, should that opportunity present itself.Footnote 33 Most reflection on religion and other worlds has been done by scholars and theologians of Christianity,Footnote 34and that religion provides...
We have suggested that Christianity may be the religion that finds it most difficult to embrace intelligent alien beings, in the same way as humans are embraced. We have shown, however, that, at least on the liberal wing, Christianity could reasonably chart that path, as Pope Francis suggested, should the time come. The same kind of theological ref...
- Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen
- 2021
Jun 19, 2015 · According to other arguments that Bostrom offers, the creation of a ‘friendly’ superintelligent being might, on the other hand, lead to the rapid development of many beneficial technologies, e.g., technologies that eliminate death by aging.
- Paul D. Thorn
- thorn@phil.hhu.de
- 2015
Dec 1, 2015 · Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his recent and celebrated book Superintelligence, argues that advanced AI poses a potentially major existential risk to humanity, and that advanced AI development should be heavily regulated and perhaps even restricted to a small set of government-approved researchers.
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Sep 25, 2014 · Biological brains are unlikely to be the final stage of intelligence. Machines already have superhuman strength, speed and stamina – and one day they will have superhuman intelligence. The only...
