It truly
deserved to be read.Since with the beginning of humankind people have tried to
obtain the status of superintelligence.In his book Nick Bostrom
explain:paths,dangers,strategies of superintelligence.Nick Bostrom
professor University of
Oxford,director,Strategic Artificial Intelligence.
We can’t
give an exact definition of artificial intelligence,but we define it like any
intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually
all domain of interst.
What seemed
to be unimaginable in the past ,today it ‘s happening artificial intelligence
already out performs human intelligence in many domains.Few days ago at
Stanford University reading comprehension test artificial intelligence machines
built by Microsoft and Alibaba have beaten humans.Alibaba’s neural network
scored 82.44 on test !!! and humans scored 82.304 and Microsoft 82.650
Early
attempts to built artificial intelligence have been made for the first time by
the mathematician I.J. GOOD who had served as statistician.In early 1980 Japan
launched the first generation of Computer System Project that would serve as a
platform for AI.In the 1990 new technique was launched which include neural
networks and genetic algorithms (Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence
GOFAI)
Superintelligence
have the following paths:
- · Artifical Intelligence
- · Whole brain emulation
- · Biological cognition
- · Brain computer interfaces
- · Networks and organizations
I will not
speak about those you will find more details in the book.Recently Elon Musk
launched a company Neurallink Corporation which is working to link the human
brain with a machine interfaces creating micron sized devices.Other path of
superintelligence is whole brain emulation can been made by a detailed scan of
the brain of particular human brain.This might involve stabilizing the brain
post mortem through vitrification (a process that turn tissue into a kind of
glass).A machine could dissect the tissue on thin slices which could be fed
into another machine for scaning perhaps an array ofelectro microscopes.The
data from scanners is fed to a computer for automated image processing to
reconstruct the three dimension of neural network that implement cognition in
the original brain.
The
adoption of AI could also create not only good things but also bad things like
huge unemployment a lot of jobs will disapeer ,capability control problem
undesirable outcomes can happen.Introduction of machine superintelligence would
create a substantial existential risk but will reduce many other existential
risk.
