AI: Can we get all the pros with none of the cons? - Stephen Wolfram & Steven Levy

Should we be worried? Stephen Wolfram and Steven Levy explore the concept of intelligence and how developing AI, robotics and automation can lead to unexpected results.

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[silberlinie]

Hi Stephen:
didn’t you consider that it is in no way hard, ones you are out of your biological instantiation, your consciousness processes can run fast as hell, given you not only infinity measured by traditional standards but now give you infinity in a time fraction of second by your previous standard?

[AngelusMortis]

how to automate excercise: electrodes, drugs.

[JCorvinusVR]

I like the definition of intelligence being a function optimizer. You feed it a goal, and it finds the best way to get to that goal. The more optimized the effort (lowest cost, fastest time, most accurate), the more intelligent it is. This makes it very hard to accidentally conflate consciousness with intelligence, and it also gives us a definition of intelligence that isn't inherently anthropomorphic.

[capitanmission]

Its funny how close are Stephen conclusions to those of Buddhists. Consciousness is in everything, free will isn't what we think, very similar concepts from very different traditions.