Singularity References

Videos

• WHAT IS SMART - INTELLIGENCE (IQ Documentary, 49 minutes):
• Singularity 49 minutes
  
  
• Source of Hawking's "You would lose" quote
  
  
• AI PBS, 8 minutes -- a must
  
  
• People of Walmart
  2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7xnpNtuq4&list=RD2T-QHCDOyso&index=2
  2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0BMP4wdG4CQ
  2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4Y9Cft_yI&index=5&list=RD2T-QHCDOyso

  Articles

  Here’s Why Robots Could Humanize War
  * They do not have to worry about self-preservation, and therefore would not have to fire upon targets they simply suspect pose a threat. "There is no need for a ‘shoot first, ask-questions later’ approach, but rather a ‘first-do-no-harm’ strategy can be utilized instead.
  * They can process more information than a human before having to use deadly force.
  * Physical and mental damage from actions of the battlefield would have no impact on a robot without anger or frustration.
  - See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/05/15/Here-s-Why-Robots-Could-Humanize-War#sthash.LhIOO12b.dpuf
  
  
• Rat Pilots Jet into Tomorrow more at : http://neural.bme.ufl.edu/page12/page1/page1.html

  New BOOKS

• "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era," by James Barrat, suggests that AIs, whatever their ostensible purpose, will have a drive for self-preservation and resource acquisition. Barrat concludes that "without meticulous, countervailing instructions, a self-aware, self-improving, goal-seeking system will go to lengths we’d deem ridiculous to fulfill its goals."
  
  
• "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. The book addresses the prospect of an artificial superintelligence that could feasibly be created in the next few decades. According to theorists, once the AI is able to make itself smarter, it would quickly surpass human intelligence.
      What would happen next? The consequences of such a radical development are inherently difficult to predict. But that hasn’t stopped philosophers, futurists, scientists and fiction writers from thinking very hard about some of the possible outcomes. The results of their thought experiments sound like science fiction.
  
  

  Quotes

• "The basic problem is that the strong realization of most motivations is incompatible with human existence. ,An AI might want to do certain things with matter in order to achieve a goal, things like building giant computers, or other large-scale engineering projects. Those things might involve intermediary steps, like tearing apart the Earth to make huge solar panels. A superintelligence might not take our interests into consideration in those situations, just like we don’t take root systems or ant colonies into account when we go to construct a building." -- Daniel Dewey, a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, said in an extensive interview with Aeon magazine.
  
  
• "The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else." -- AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute
  
  
• More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pry we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen

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