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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The singularity as existential risk
The last few years have produced an increasing amount of popular discourse about the singularity, which describes events in technological development that would lead to human-level machine intelligence, and would lead to computers achieving superintelligence. Following this…
An explosion of books about AI
I am beginning to suspect that the singularity refers simply to an explosion of books about artificial intelligence.
Consciousness is the key issue for superintelligence
There are a few who argue that consciousness is a result of the fundamental organizational principle of the brain and therefore that we cannot call any machine truly intelligent without it. In other words, human consciousness is not a useless phenomenon but confers some real…
The closer to brains, the less belief in superintelligence
Contrast this view with that of Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis,5 who is actually building brain-machine interfaces, or BMIs. “The arguments favoring the emergence of a relativistic brain strongly suggest,” writes Nicolelis, “that the primate central nervous…
AI as building robots with economic theory
Whether or not the field of artificial intelligence deals with this foundational issue could be decisive for its project of building superintelligent machines. It turns on whether computations are ontologically objective versus epistemically objective. If computations are only…
Must machines acquire subjectivity?
believe that the objective mind-independent world does exist. First-person conscious experience is intrinsically subjective, relative and uncertain. How can the field of artificial intelligence use the objective, third-person, logical methods of computer science to create a…