0005: Paths to Superintelligence

– 3 paths … Connectionist (Neural nets), Computationalist (Symbolic), Robotics (embodied) … Uploading … big data … other paths
intelligence explosion

IBM paper says: Silver Bullets, Core Values, Emergence, and Emulation

Wikipedia page for Bostrom’s book Superintelligence

AI

– connectionism and neural nets
– computationalism (symbolic AI, Good Old Fashioned AI GOFAI)
– logical AI (sentences in a mathematical logical language)
– planning
– Genetic programming
– Robotics, embodied AI

Whole brain emulation
– Uploading

Human-machine interfaces

Organizational

Biological (eg embryo selection, gene hacking)

Game AIs, worlds getting more and more rich

next episode: ethics, how will we deal with emerging non-biological persons