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Topic: Superintelligence

	How long before superintelligence?
		By a "superintelligence" we mean an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.
		Creating superintelligence through imitating the functioning of the human brain requires two more things in addition to appropriate learning rules (and sufficiently powerful hardware): it requires having an adequate initial architecture and providing a rich flux of sensory input.
		Superintelligence might be seen to pose a threat to the supremacy, and even to the survival, of the human species.
	www.nickbostrom.com /superintelligence.html (6953 words)

	TermPapers-TermPapers.com - Simulating Superintelligence
		Eric Fingerman By a superintelligence we mean an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.
		This definition leaves open how the superintelligence is implemented: it could be a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue or what have you.
		Entities such as companies or the scientific community are not superintelligences according to this definition.
	termpapers-termpapers.com /dbs/f5/tvh225.shtml (2451 words)

	Future Hi: December 2004 Archives
		Undaunted by the relentless deferment of the "inevitable" arrival of even the modest artificial intelligence we've been promised interminably by enthusiasts for decades, they warn of and (let's be frank) pine for the near-term and inevitable arrival of greater-than-human artificial intelligence to this day in the same urgent, sometimes hushed, tones.
		Those in the AI camp have no faith that such an inner transformation can occur, which is why they have put all their faith in a aritifical superintelligence.
		Some of them have put their faith in one individual who claims to be the one person who has the one solution to making all this happen.
	www.futurehi.net /archives/2004_12.html (5371 words)

	JET 14(1) - April 2005 - Bostrom - Transhumanist Thought
		While it is often thought that, under suitable circumstances, the upload would be conscious and that the original person would have survived the transfer to the new medium, individual transhumanists take different views on these philosophical matters.
		If either superintelligence, or molecular nanotechnology, or uploading, or some other technology of a similarly revolutionary kind is developed, the human condition could clearly be radically transformed.
		He conceives of a superintelligence as an enormously powerful optimization process, and the central task is to specify the mental architecture and goal-structure of the AI in such a way that it realizes desirable outcomes.
	www.jetpress.org /volume14/bostrom.html (9763 words)

	General Intelligence and Seed AI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This might consist of assisting all humanity in upgrading to the level of superintelligent Powers, or creating an operating system for all the quarks in the Solar System, or something completely unknowable.
		I believe that, as the result of creating a Friendly superintelligence, involuntary death, pain, coercion, and stupidity will be erased from the human condition; and that humanity, or whatever we become, will go on to fulfill to the maximum possible extent whatever greater destiny or higher goals exist, if any do.
		The key point is that while embodying some aspect of cognition may be useful or necessary, it is not an end in itself.
	www.singinst.org /GISAI.html (18735 words)

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