Superintelligence

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• Superintelligence by Michael Anissimov

The SingularityMachine Intelligence Research Institute is dedicated to ensuring humanity's safety and prosperity by preparing for the development of an Artificial General Intelligence with superintelligence. Given its intelligence, it is likely to be incapable of being controlled by humanity. It is important to prepare early for the development of friendly artificial intelligence, as there may be an AI arms race. A strong superintelligence is a term describing a superintelligence which is not designed with the same architecture as the human brain.

A Superintelligence is a being with superhuman intelligence, and a focus of the Singularity Institute'Machine Intelligence Research Institute's research. Specifically, Nick Bostrom (1997) defined it as

An Artificial General Intelligence will have a number of advantages aiding it in becoming a superintelligence. It can recursively improve the hardware it runs on.on and obtain better hardware. It will be capable of directly editing its own code, and improving the efficacy ofcode. Depending on how easy its code is to modify, it might carry out software improvements recursively.that spark further improvements. Where a task can be accomplished in a repetitive way, a module preforming the task far more efficiently canmight be developed. Its motivations and preferences can be easily edited, as can its preferences.edited to be more consistent with each other. It will have an indefinite life span, be capable of reproducing, and transfer knowledge, skills, and code among its copies as well as cooperating and communicating with them better than humans do with perfect communication.each other.

The development of superintelligence from humans is another possibility, sometimes termed a weak superintelligence. It may come in the form of whole brain emulation, where a human brain is scanned and simulated on a computer. Many of the advantages a AGI has in developing superintelligence apply here as well. The development of Brain-computer interfaces may also lead to the creation of superintelligence. Biological enhancements such as genetic engineering and the use of nootropics could lead to superintelligence as well.

The Singularity Institute is dedicated to ensuring humanity's safety and prosperity by preparing for the creationdevelopment of an Artificial General Intelligence which will develop superintelligence. A superintelligence with an architecture not based on the human brain is sometime called a strong superintelligence. Given its intelligence, it is likely to be incapable of being controlled by humanity. It is important to prepare early to developfor the development of friendly artificial intelligence, as there may be an AI arms race. A strong superintelligence is a term describing a superintelligence which is not designed with the same architecture as the human brain.

An Artificial General Intelligence haswill have a number of advantages thataiding it in becoming a superintelligence. It can recursively improve the hardware it runs on. It will help it develop superintelligence.be capable of directly editing its own code, and improving the efficacy of its improvements recursively. Where a task accomplished in a repetitive way, a module preforming the task far more efficiently can be developed. Its motivations can be easily edited, as can its preferences. It will have an indefinite life span, be capable of reproducing, and transfer knowledge, skills, and code among its copies as well as cooperating with them with perfect communication.

The development of superintelligence from humans has also been considered,another possibility, sometimes calledtermed a weak superintelligence. It may come in the form of whole brain emulation, where a human brain is scanned and simulated on a computer. Many of the advantages a AGI has in developing superintelligence apply here as well. The development of Brain-computer interfaces may also lead to the creation of superintelligence. Biological enhancements such as genetic manipulation orengineering and the use of nootropics could lead to superintelligence as well.

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A Superintelligence refersis a being with superhuman intelligence, and a focus of the Singularity Institute's research. Specifically, Nick Bostrom (1997) defined it as

"An intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills."

The Singularity Institute is dedicated to ensuring humanity's safety and prosperity by preparing for the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence which will develop superintelligence. A superintelligence with an architecture not based on the human brain is sometime called a hypothesizedstrong superintelligence. Given its intelligence, it is likely to be incapable of being that possesscontrolled by humanity. It is important to prepare early to develop friendly artificial intelligence far beyond the abilities of any current human being. These could either, as there may be an Super AI arms race.

An Artificial General Intelligence (SAI) or has a number of advantages that will help it develop superintelligence.

The development of superintelligence from humans has also been considered, sometimes called a weak superintelligence. It may come in the form of whole brain emulation, where a human that had some formbrain is scanned and simulated on a computer. The development of cognitive enhancement either biological or Brain-computer interfaces

Superintelligence can be divided into two varieties “weak” and “strong”. A “weak superintelligence” would have a structure with similar cognitive abilities may also lead to the human brain, but ablecreation of superintelligence. Biological enhancements such as genetic manipulation or the use of nootropics could lead to operate at a vastly greater speed. Whilst a “strong superintelligence” would operate superiorly in both speed and cognitive ability.superintelligence as well.

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