With all the lolmemes flying around on the net, I think the superintelligence that would evolve from it would be superretarded.
Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
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Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read Kurzweil's book "the age of intelligent machines" where he set quite a few predictions for the next 10-15 years. This was 15 years ago - and he got almost all of them right. I just don't want to dismiss him - besides it seems arrogant that we should forever be the best evolution can offer.
People who think computers of sufficient power will just become self aware, don't really understand computers. If intelligent machines arise (and I think they will), it'll be because someone worked very very hard to make it so. Btw, it's arrogant to assume we're the best evolution has offered since you're defining best in human terms.
You got me on that last one, you're right.
Sharks have outlived us by a million years, so in evolutionary terms they are definitely more successful than us.
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#13The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. In particular, you can't make very good predictions about AI before you have a very good understanding of how learning and knowledge creation works.
You can tell someone doesn't know these things when they never bring it up, despite it being critical to their claims.
One way this is relevant is that people talk a lot about raw computing power. As if that was the bottleneck in humans. But the more critical issue, by far, is irrationalities. And they don't address whether AIs will have those, or not. Nor do they address how to "parent" an AI.
This particular article doesn't even mention traditions or memes.
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#14Let me begin by extending a large, rigid middle finger to those questioning the eventual validity of such an amazing article. Having said that, I agree with pchristensen in that the web itself will not simply become "self-aware", but when an AI-capable system (or thing) gets a hold of such a pool of information, it will feed itself a quantity of information that the human brain could never understand. When this day comes, it will be the last step towards limitless innovation and human/machinist achievement. We are so close!
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
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#16The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. In particular, you can't make very good predictions about AI before you have a very good understanding of how learning and knowledge creation works. You can tell someone doesn't know these things when they never bring it up, despite it being critical to their claims. One way this is…
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Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#17It seems like most of you are defining the web to be separate from the people using it. Doesn't the Machine include the hamsters making the wheels spin?
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#18No.
why?
In the everlasting words of Pat Cadigan ("Death in the Promised Land"), what you are describing is akin to putting a dirty shirt and a pile of straw in a wooden box for the spontaneous generation of mice.
It took an enormous amount of cumulative optimization pressure to turn self-replicating RNA strings into humans. The Web doesn't have anything remotely on that order, and no, the "reproduction" of corporations and startups doesn't even begin to approach the quantitative selection pressures involved.
See: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/no-evolution-fo.html
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#19Let me begin by extending a large, rigid middle finger to those questioning the eventual validity of such an amazing article. Having said that, I agree with pchristensen in that the web itself will not simply become "self-aware", but when an AI-capable system (or thing) gets a hold of such a pool of information, it will feed itself a quantity of information that the human brain could never understand. When this day c…
Ray Kurzweil has been milking the AI teat for a very long time. He's a futurist without much future.
Re: Will superintelligence emerge on the Web?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who think computers of sufficient power will just become self aware, don't really understand computers. If intelligent machines arise (and I think they will), it'll be because someone worked very very hard to make it so. Btw, it's arrogant to assume we're the best evolution has offered since you're defining best in human terms.
You got me on that last one, you're right. Sharks have outlived us by a million years, so in evolutionary terms they are definitely more successful than us.
They started earlier; that's not what I would consider the normal definition of "outlive".