Singularity Summit 2011 Workshop Report

lukeprog

Here is a short new publication from the Singularity Institute, on the 2-day workshop that followed Singularity Summit 2011.

Note the new publication design. We are currently porting our earlier publications to this template, too.

Here is a short new publication from the Singularity Institute, on the 2-day workshop that followed Singularity Summit 2011.

Note the new publication design. We are currently porting our earlier publications to this template, too.

You are correct.

(Also: different people have different opinions within SIAI, but it's simplifying and not grossly inaccurate to sometimes talk about "what SIAI thinks.")

So, the workshop discussion (plus your "Intelligence Explosion" paper) lead to three possible approaches:

differentially push for WBE vs. neuromorphic AI (e.g., research topics within WBE that contribute least to neuromorphic AI)
differentially push for FAI vs. general de novo AI
push for intelligence amplification

It seems really hard to differentially push for FAI. For example I've mostly stopped working on decision theory because it seems to help UFAI as much as FAI. The only safe topics within FAI that I can see are ethics (normative and me... (read more)

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