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Eliezer, do you think AI is likely to be built, or emergent? I was thinking the other day that the internet (and the services and people who interact with it)
by DaniFong 18y ago
Eliezer, do you think AI is likely to be built, or emergent? I was thinking the other day that the internet (and the services and people who interact with it) are collectively gaining towards sentience: it has memory (archive.org), recall (search), self-awareness (various part of the internet inspecting the internet is like introspection), even something that you might call emotion, or motivation. It seems like an AI is as likely to emerge by accident, as an entity interacting and viewing it's environment (on the internet) as it is likely to be built from the ground up.
- beza1e1 18y agoDefine intelligence first, then we can talk wether or not the internet is an AI.
- randomwalker 18y agoEliezer has repeatedly expressed his strong view that "emergence" is crap. You may not agree with it, but at least do a cursory search to see if he's already answered your question before you ask him. http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=emergent+site%3Aovercomingbias.com http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=emergent+site%3Aovercomi...
- JesseAldridge 18y ago+1 for the link -2 for being a dick
- rw 18y agoDani: There are a number of papers discussing the emergence of a "global superbrain". You might be interested in the work of Francis Heylighen and the ECCO group at the VUB (Brussels).
- markessien 18y agoAI is going to be developed, but only when we are able to recognize the simplicity inherent in intelligence.