thesignalbox.org— Search engines are the first stage in a smooth ramp-up to posthuman cognition. It's the quiet cybernetic revolution.
Jul 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
It's fascinating thinking. Today must be AI day on Digg judging by the number of posts.I think if nothing else we still haven't yet managed to satisfactorily define what human 'intelligence' really is. The AI debate helps us try and define it.For example, from the text. "Consider Jacob, the foreign policy expert. His quiet AI is so advanced and tuned to his psyche that it can produce “Jacobesque” cognitive behaviour without any direct human input. This allows him to spin off several copies of his AI to work on cognitive tasks in parallel while he devotes himself to honing what he believes. He’s the belief pilot of his flock of artificial minds, turning his life experiences into a unique belief system that influences the behaviour and information handling of his software, and providing minor course corrections when necessary." But how does Jacob come to arrive at his beliefs when, earlier in his life, he was exposed to all beliefs and opinions, many of which were contradictory?I like the idea of knowledge enhancement as outlined in this article, but it's presupposing a formed mind as the start point. And what part do experiences (and genetics) play in forming that?
But how does Jacob come to arrive at his beliefs?Perhaps through nanotech?You seem to forget the fact that a technological singulrity should imply a raise in human intelligence. Which should mean, less errors. We'll this is clearly just a game to entertain our minds. We don't really know.But, I can hear It coming. I just can't see it yet.I guess you can hear it too.We'll see what it is. But for sure, it will be. :D
burningmonkJul 26, 2006
I can't wait to live in a Ghost in the Shell world.
cupevampeJul 26, 2006
Very interesting. The kind of news i love :D
shefftimJul 26, 2006
It's fascinating thinking. Today must be AI day on Digg judging by the number of posts.I think if nothing else we still haven't yet managed to satisfactorily define what human 'intelligence' really is. The AI debate helps us try and define it.For example, from the text. "Consider Jacob, the foreign policy expert. His quiet AI is so advanced and tuned to his psyche that it can produce “Jacobesque” cognitive behaviour without any direct human input. This allows him to spin off several copies of his AI to work on cognitive tasks in parallel while he devotes himself to honing what he believes. He’s the belief pilot of his flock of artificial minds, turning his life experiences into a unique belief system that influences the behaviour and information handling of his software, and providing minor course corrections when necessary." But how does Jacob come to arrive at his beliefs when, earlier in his life, he was exposed to all beliefs and opinions, many of which were contradictory?I like the idea of knowledge enhancement as outlined in this article, but it's presupposing a formed mind as the start point. And what part do experiences (and genetics) play in forming that?
cupevampeJul 26, 2006
But how does Jacob come to arrive at his beliefs?Perhaps through nanotech?You seem to forget the fact that a technological singulrity should imply a raise in human intelligence. Which should mean, less errors. We'll this is clearly just a game to entertain our minds. We don't really know.But, I can hear It coming. I just can't see it yet.I guess you can hear it too.We'll see what it is. But for sure, it will be. :D