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Beyond Conspiracy: Artificial General Intelligence
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May 30, 2007
By ATS Member "IgnoranceIsntBlisss"
Artificial Intelligence is a commonly known concept. The full understanding of it, and the military establishments extensive programs in it are quite the opposite. It's not even something they're keeping all too secret, however the American and World Public are being completely blindsided by this coming reality that is sure to change the world as we know it like history has never seen before nor will be able to predict it's outcome.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in virtually any sophisticated electronic device these days. It's in our video games, it's in your very own computer, it did engineered a greater part of the Windows operating system that you're probably using, they use it to literally operate the stock market, and so on.
However, these are all merely forms of "Narrow" AI (NAI). That is, they can only perform or understand a narrow range of tasks or concepts, regardless of how bad you get killed by the AI "bots" in your favorite video game. You wont have to worry about your video games taking over the world all on their own anytime soon, like in the film "War Games".
The AI's typically depicted in movies like "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" are what we would consider "Strong" or "Broad" AI. Many top AI scientists nowadays refer to this as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). That is, it would have a complete semantic understanding of it's own content, and packets of data it may be transceiving. It would have "consciousness", or "self-awareness', per say.
An AGI scenario is generally considered scary in the idea of some AI being able to 'just so happen' to realize how to reprogram its own code, and then rapidly reprogram itself into higher and higher levels of design and intelligence beyond human comprehension.
In this reality said AGI would not merely "know" what data it stores in its memory and its hard disks, it would literally understand what all of the information meant, and how to use it. Perhaps it's not "scary", unless said budding AGI was actually in a position to gain some sort of embedded control of some kind of important systems.
In any case, that scenario would be a "Hard Takeoff" (HT).
The other general idea is that the AI would gradually develop, or mature, into an actual AGI. This would obviously be the ideal way to go, if we're to accept the idea of machines surpassing us humans into a collective intelligence that we could never comprehend after a certain point in time. This scenario is called a "Soft Takeoff" (ST). During the ST the AI/AGI could better be kept isolated, studied, controlled, understood and so on.
We're generally presented with those 2 dichotomies, whenever one looks far enough into the matter anyways. In the real world it not only might work out somewhere in between, it will, unless we're to simply dismiss any notion of it being possible. However, it's too bad in this case that the world didn't turn out to be flat with the universe revolving around it.
The simplest scenario that I'm concerned about is where a powerful AI, yet even limited in actual intelligence, was to do extensive work with the Internet. If such a resource powerful and semantic understanding AI/AGI were to 'get on' the Internet, it may not take long for it to gain access to the right assortment of pages and information to 'teach' itself both 'intelligence' and how to reprogram itself.
And then there exists the military establishments extensive programs in "self-aware" "cognitive" AGI platforms, and their direct partnership and history with Google in this all-encompassing multi-agency initiative... (more)
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See also
Nanotechno & Revelation 13:15-18
http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=27379
& many related threads linked:-
BEFORE OUR EYES..
http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=18604
Ian
Beyond Conspiracy: Artificial General Intelligence
Email Newsletter Special Feature
May 30, 2007
By ATS Member "IgnoranceIsntBlisss"
Artificial Intelligence is a commonly known concept. The full understanding of it, and the military establishments extensive programs in it are quite the opposite. It's not even something they're keeping all too secret, however the American and World Public are being completely blindsided by this coming reality that is sure to change the world as we know it like history has never seen before nor will be able to predict it's outcome.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in virtually any sophisticated electronic device these days. It's in our video games, it's in your very own computer, it did engineered a greater part of the Windows operating system that you're probably using, they use it to literally operate the stock market, and so on.
However, these are all merely forms of "Narrow" AI (NAI). That is, they can only perform or understand a narrow range of tasks or concepts, regardless of how bad you get killed by the AI "bots" in your favorite video game. You wont have to worry about your video games taking over the world all on their own anytime soon, like in the film "War Games".
The AI's typically depicted in movies like "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" are what we would consider "Strong" or "Broad" AI. Many top AI scientists nowadays refer to this as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). That is, it would have a complete semantic understanding of it's own content, and packets of data it may be transceiving. It would have "consciousness", or "self-awareness', per say.
An AGI scenario is generally considered scary in the idea of some AI being able to 'just so happen' to realize how to reprogram its own code, and then rapidly reprogram itself into higher and higher levels of design and intelligence beyond human comprehension.
In this reality said AGI would not merely "know" what data it stores in its memory and its hard disks, it would literally understand what all of the information meant, and how to use it. Perhaps it's not "scary", unless said budding AGI was actually in a position to gain some sort of embedded control of some kind of important systems.
In any case, that scenario would be a "Hard Takeoff" (HT).
The other general idea is that the AI would gradually develop, or mature, into an actual AGI. This would obviously be the ideal way to go, if we're to accept the idea of machines surpassing us humans into a collective intelligence that we could never comprehend after a certain point in time. This scenario is called a "Soft Takeoff" (ST). During the ST the AI/AGI could better be kept isolated, studied, controlled, understood and so on.
We're generally presented with those 2 dichotomies, whenever one looks far enough into the matter anyways. In the real world it not only might work out somewhere in between, it will, unless we're to simply dismiss any notion of it being possible. However, it's too bad in this case that the world didn't turn out to be flat with the universe revolving around it.
The simplest scenario that I'm concerned about is where a powerful AI, yet even limited in actual intelligence, was to do extensive work with the Internet. If such a resource powerful and semantic understanding AI/AGI were to 'get on' the Internet, it may not take long for it to gain access to the right assortment of pages and information to 'teach' itself both 'intelligence' and how to reprogram itself.
And then there exists the military establishments extensive programs in "self-aware" "cognitive" AGI platforms, and their direct partnership and history with Google in this all-encompassing multi-agency initiative... (more)
======================================================================
See also
Nanotechno & Revelation 13:15-18
http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=27379
& many related threads linked:-
BEFORE OUR EYES..
http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=18604
Ian