> “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; > Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” > — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias > > “The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.” > — I. J. Good, 1965 1. The question In Intelligence Is...
> “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” > — Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future > “The answer was, for the wind-up toy, ‘Energy makes it go.’ And for the boy on the bicycle, ‘Energy makes it go.’ For everything ‘Energy makes it go.’ Now that doesn’t...
I. There is a class of arguments that never really get resolved because the participants are using the same word to point at different things. “Intelligence” is one of those words. A human is intelligent. A raven is intelligent. An ant colony is sort of intelligent. A thermostat is maybe...