Superintelligence

Superintelligence

Superintelligence (SI or S.I.) is an exceptionally large or powerful, superior intelligence when compared to the nearest (and only current) standard (human) level intelligence.

Nick Bostrom 1998 states:

The concept has appeared on several occasions in science fiction.

Works using the concept

* Skynet is a fictional, computer-based military defence system that acts as the primary antagonist in the Terminator series of films and games. The strategy behind Skynet's creation was to remove the possibility of human error and slowness of reaction time to guarantee fast, efficient response to enemy attack, but it eventually becomes self-aware and attempted to exterminate the human race especially with the release of nuclear weapons.

* AM is the name of the [supercomputer] from the novel – "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" which is a post apocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison. This tale of the evil that man can unleash from himself through science was first published in the March 1967 issue of .

* The computer Deep Thought in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is commissioned to find the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, although the question to this answer isn't known. Deep Thought then builds a more powerful computer, namely the Earth to find the question. Incidentally, Deep Thought's creators are hyper-intelligent.

ee also

*Artificial intelligence
*Strong AI
*Clarke’s three laws
*Omega point
*Hans Moravec
*Max More
*Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
*Seed AI
*Technological evolution
*Techno-utopianism
*Tipping point
*Transhumanism

References

External links

*Citation
last = How long to superintelligence?
year = 1998
url = http://www.nickbostrom.com
title = Philosophy
accessdate = 2008-03-23

*Book by Minsky, Marvin "The Society of Mind" ISBN 0-671-65713-5 March 15, 1988
* [http://www.media.mit.edu/~push/ExaminingSOM.html MIT article "Examining the Society of Mind"]
* [http://hem.bredband.net/b153434/Index.htm Estimated IQs] of famous geniuses.
* [http://www.cerebrals.org/genius.htm Genius Hall] - information on geniuses through time.
*"Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us" (Pantheon, 2002) ISBN 0-375-42079-7
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/ KurzweilAI.net]
* [http://sss.stanford.edu/ "The Singularity Summit at Stanford"]

*cite book |author=Greenfield, Susan |title=The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science) |publisher=Penguin Books Ltd |location=London, England |year=2002 |pages=272 pages |isbn=0-14-100720-6
*cite book | author=D. Lenat and R. V. Guha. | title=Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project | publisher =Addison-Wesley | year=1990 | id=ISBN 0-201-51752-3
*"How to Build a Mind", Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000 [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231120125.HTM] ISSN|0893-6080.
*"Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents", Journal of Consciousness Studies 2003. [http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs_10_4-5.html#aleksander]

*Book by David Marr - Neuroscientist 1980 "Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information" ISBN 0-7167-1567-8 1980

*What is a Superintelligence [http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-superintelligence.htm]


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