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Bostrom versus Transcendence

by Stuart_Armstrong

18th Apr 2014

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Nick Bostrom takes on the facts, the fictions and the speculations in the movie Transcendence:

Could you upload Johnny Depp's brain? Oxford Professor on Transcendence

How soon until machine intelligence? Oxford professor on Transcendence

Would you have warning before artificial superintelligence? Oxford professor on Transcendence

Oxford professor on Transcendence: how could you get a machine intelligence?

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I like how "MIRI" is written on the whiteboard behind him (in all but the first videos).

(This comment in the spirit of ignoring core messages and focusing on some minor tidbit.)

Benya12y30

The true message of the first video is even more subliminal: The whiteboard behind him shows some math recently developed by MIRI, along with a (rather boring) diagram of Botworld :-)