Is General AI Upon Us?

Just read this short article and watched the video.  If this is real, we should all be filled with trepidation while fervently hoping/working for a positive outcome.  (However, people are reasonably skeptical, as it is the “creator” exclusively who is doing all the interviewing.)

This New Species of AI Wants to Be “Superintelligent” When She Grows Up

Additionally, the most recent video uploaded by the AI’s creator:

Intelligence Explosion (in machines, not in this blog)

You can find many videos on YouTube of prognosticators discussing the impending explosion of machine intelligence.  I choose here to start with Sam Harris, a favorite public intellectual of mine and the person through whom I stumbled upon Nick Bostrom‘s work.  Anyone who works in or studies technology has surely heard of (if not read) Bostrom’s book, “Superintelligence.”   Continue reading “Intelligence Explosion (in machines, not in this blog)”