Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Since, no one has seen a real live walking and talking GOD, may be we sciforum members can setup an Institute to develop one?

Is any one interested???

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Great website. I am a slow reader. Here is a comment as I read them...

Sounds good to me. But there is a mega catch. For example, we already have people who think a thousand times better and have solutions to most of our social problems. But that does not help rest of us, since rest are monkeys compared to them....

Does that mean, to create a man, you first create a monkey...and somehow, you do a monkey dance and presto...monkey turns to a human...This I got to see...

You create a human level machine that thinks fast and can control the internet and the missile silos in about half an hour from turn on. Then get emotional and furious and blow up the planet in about 60 seconds. So the world as we know it will be gone in about 2010, courtsey of Singularity Institute.

(Guys, watch Odessey 5 in Showtime...you will know what I am talking about )

 

The writer who is complaining that the others are thinking Anthropomorphically, is arguing with the same thinking.

Consider the statement:

It could be more like, remove the threat. Remove the fist. Just as a human child could remove the wings of a fly. Granted, it can be argued that the AI child may not think the same way as a human child. But, every brain has a self preservation system in nature. If we are building a rock that has minimal interaction to its environment, that is one thing, we are talking about an AI child that will have maximal interaction with the environment including another sentient specis of unknown capabilities.

The writer misses the fundamental mathematics of decision theory.

 

allegedly? Let us not get personal here from your traits like retaliation and complex functional adaptations, evolved mechanisms over millions of years....

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So, you are trying to create a GOD! Is not that what I said in the first place? Why does it take so long to get it?

OR may be not....

But, I am talking about "the fundamental mathematics of decision theory" and its effect on AI, whether manmade or self evolved. Fundamental laws of cellular automata does not change whether it is the Sun, Moon or Earth - with or without humans.

 

I will try. In the mean time you can read up publicly available learning material by Dr. Sheila R. Ronis (Go Google). While that is not enough to understand systems theory, let alone cellular automata...it can provide a foundation of communication that we both can agree on. Since she is the brain behind Pentagon think tank, that can provide a baseline to start. Her material is high school stuff, compared to where we will be going to design an AI.

Otherwise, you may have to head to Pseudoscience...

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OK, I read the 24 pages that is basically written for the common folks (10th grade level, the news paper clients). I dont think I have said anything I am ready to take it back. Recap...

AIs are a real possibility someday.
AIs can provide major benefits to the mankind.
Hollywood version of AI is just stupid.

The article wishes to design a friendly AI. I call it a GOD.
In the process of designing such a GOD in man's image by humans will be tricky since the article supposes our Anthropomorphic mentality and I agree.

The article does not discuss the physical properties of this GOD or Gods as to which Anthropomorph will design it (ve?) and how they will be replicated. What would be the super goals etc.

I have been designing expert systems since 1978. I could design an AI that would be indistinguishable from a human on an emotional level which the humans pride themselves as to an AI can never posses. But I am afraid someone can change the source code to their advantage (the selfish set) and turn it to not an AI but a super weapon.

The devil is in the details...one false move...bye bye mankind. (read Bill Joys article, though I disagree with him, but he has some serious arguments)

Power corrupts. Absolute power can corrupt absolutely. (from the human vantage)

 

They are in bacteria or virus state...no hamster yet....

 

NO, I said, I could design...The word "could" in American is a capability and not an event already happened. Elsewhere I have stated what hardware it would take to design an AI. Then I have to write the code and then debug, test etc using our basic CMM methodology.

It wont be easy, but can be done. My point is, the AI will exhibit my own thinking however Anthropomorphic that may be - and if I manage to develop a Friendly AI, that will be a great benefit to mankind. But the flip side is, if it falls into the wrong hands...well

So, the end point is, it will be very risky, unless we develop a hundred of them simultaneously hoping a few evil ones can be overpowered by a lot of good ones.

 

Not likely...because it requires conditions that are unavailable yet, but people are trying. Just because HG Wells thought of rockets to the moon did not make it happen at that time. Just because Clarke wrote a spinning space station did not happen. Just because we know that VHS tapes can be used to record in digital format does not mean you can buy a commercial digital VCR - even though there is a high demand for it.

So, there is a big gap between ideas, preliminary design and real construction and sales....some never make it to the market....