A new study has warned that it will become impossible to predict the actions of superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI), raising questions over whether humans may eventually lose control.
Research conducted by the Max-Planck Institute for Humans and Machines and published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research has found that in order to accurately predict what an individual AI is going do, scientists would have to run an exact simulation of the system – a feat that will grow more difficult as AI systems become more and more advanced. Read More
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Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers and technologists have revived the discussion about the potential catastrophic risks entailed by such an entity. In this article, we trace the origins and development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major proposals for its containment. We argue that such containment is, in principle, impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) infeasible. Read More
We Have Already Let The Genie Out of The Bottle
How will we make sure that Artificial Intelligence won’t run amok and will be a force for good?
There are many areas where governance frameworks and international agreements about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are needed. For example, there is an urgent need for internationally shared rules governing autonomous weapons and the use of facial recognition to target minorities and suppress dissent. Eliminating bias in algorithms for criminal sentencing, credit allocation, social media curation and many other areas should be an essential focus for both research and the spread of best practices. Read More
Could Super Artificial Intelligence Be, In Some Sense, Alive?
Should you feel bad about pulling the plug on a robot or switch off an artificial intelligence algorithm? Not for the moment. But how about when our computers become as smart—or smarter—than us?
Philosopher Borna Jalšenjak of the Luxembourg School of Business has been thinking about that. He has a chapter, “The Artificial Intelligence Singularity: What It Is and What It Is Not,” in Guide to Deep Learning Basics: Logical, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, in which he explores the case for “thinking machines” being alive, even if they are machines. Read More
Is The Goal-Driven Systems Pattern The Key To Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?
Since the beginnings of artificial intelligence, researchers have long sought to test the intelligence of machine systems by having them play games against humans. It is often thought that one of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to think creatively, consider various possibilities, and keep a long-term goal in mind while making short-term decisions. If computers can play difficult games just as well as humans then surely they can handle even more complicated tasks. From early checkers-playing bots developed in the 1950s to today’s deep learning-powered bots that can beat even the best players in the world at games like chess, Go and DOTA, the idea of machines that can find solutions to puzzles is as old as AI itself, if not older. Read More
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World’s First ‘Living Machine’ Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence
Scientists used computer algorithms to “evolve” an organism that’s made of 100% frog DNA — but it isn’t a frog.
What happens when you take cells from frog embryos and grow them into new organisms that were “evolved” by algorithms? You get something that researchers are calling the world’s first “living machine.”
Though the original stem cells came from frogs — the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis — these so-called xenobots don’t resemble any known amphibians. Read More
If AI Suddenly Gains Consciousness, Some Say It Will Happen First In AI Self-Driving Cars
There has been a lot of speculation that one of these days there will be an AI system that suddenly and unexpectedly gives rise to consciousness.
Often referred to as the singularity, there is much hand-wringing that we are perhaps dooming ourselves to either utter death and destruction or to becoming slaves of AI once the singularity occurs. Read More
Reframing Superintelligence — Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence
Studies of superintelligent-level systems have typically posited AI func-tionality that plays the role of a mind in a rational utility-directed agent,and hence employ an abstraction initially developed as an idealized model of human decision makers. Today, developments in AI technology highlight intelligent systems that are quite unlike minds, and provide a basis for a different approach to understanding them: Today, we can consider how AI systems are produced (through the work of research and development), what they do (broadly, provide services by performing tasks), and what they will enable (including incremental yet potentially thorough automation of human tasks).
Because tasks subject to automation include the tasks that comprise AI research and development, current trends in the field promise accelerating AI-enabled advances in AI technology itself, potentially leading to asymptotically recursive improvement of AI technologies in distributed systems, a prospect that contrasts sharply with the vision of self-improvement internal to opaque, unitary agents. Read More
Measuring Progress Toward AGI Is Hard
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is still a ways off in the future but surprisingly there’s been very little conversation about how to measure if we’re getting close. This article reviews a proposal to benchmark existing AIs against animal capabilities in an Animal-AI Olympics. It’s a real thing and just now accepting entrants. Read More
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