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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
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One path leading to global catastrophe—to someone pressing the button with a mistaken idea of what the button does—is that Artificial Intelligence comes about through a similar accretion of working algorithms, with the researchers having no deep understanding of how the combined system works. [italics mine] Not knowing how to build a Friendly AI is not deadly, of itself.… It's the mistaken belief that an AI will be friendly which implies an obvious path to global catastrophe. Assuming that human-level AIs (AGIs) will be friendly is wrong for a lot of reasons. The assumption becomes even more dangerous after the AGI's intelligence rockets past ours, and it becomes ASI—artificial superintelligence. So how do you create friendly AI? Or could you impose friendliness on advanced AIs after they're already built? Yudkowsky has written a book-length online treatise about these questions entitled Creating Friendly AI: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures. Friendly AI is a subject so dense yet important it exasperates its chief proponent himself, who says about it, "it only takes one error for a chain of reasoning to end up in Outer Mongolia."
And not only what we would want, but what we would want if we "knew more, thought faster, and were more the people we thought we were." CEV would be an oracular feature of friendly AI. It would have to derive from us our values as if we were better versions of ourselves, and be democratic about it so that humankind is not tyrannized by the norms of a few. Does this sound a little starry-eyed? Well, there are good reasons for that. First, I'm giving you a highly summarized account of Friendly AI and CEV, concepts you can read volumes about online. And second, the whole topic of Friendly AI is incomplete and optimistic. It's unclear whether or not Friendly AI can be expressed in a formal, mathematical sense, and so there may be no way to build it or to integrate it into promising AI architectures. But if we could, what would the future look like?
In fact, we thrive. God bless you, Friendly AI! * * * Now that most (but not all) AI makers and theorists have recognized Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics for what they were meant to be—tools for drama, not survival—Friendly AI may be the best concept humans have come up with for planning their survival. But besides not being ready yet, it's got other big problems. First, there are too many players in the AGI sweepstakes. Too many organizations in too many countries are working on AGI and AGI-related technologies for them all to agree to mothball their projects until Friendly AI is created, or to include in their code a formal friendliness module, if one could be made. And few are even taking part in the public dialogue about the necessity for Friendly AI. Some of the AGI contestants include: IBM (with several AGI-related projects), Numenta, AGIRI, Vicarious, Carnegie Mellon's NELL and ACT-R, SNERG, LIDA, CYC, and Google.
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy by Melanie Swan
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To achieve their goals, digital intelligences will want to conduct certain transactions over the network, many of which could be managed by blockchain and other consensus mechanisms. Only Friendly AIs Are Able to Get Their Transactions Executed One of the unforeseen benefits of consensus models might be that they could possibly enforce friendly AI, which is to say cooperative, moral players within a society.196 In decentralized trust networks, an agentÕs reputation (where agents themselves remain pseudonymous) could be an important factor in whether his transactions will be executed, such that malicious players would not be able to get their transactions executed or recognized on the network. Any important transaction regarding resource access and use might require assent by consensus models. Thus, the way that friendly AI could be enforced is that even bad agents want to participate in the system to access resources and to do so, they need to look like good agents.
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The blockchain is a consensus model at scale, and possibly the mechanism we have been waiting for that could help to usher in an era of friendly machine intelligence. Blockchain AI: Consensus as the Mechanism to Foster "Friendly" AI One forward-looking but important concern in the general future of technology is different ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) might arise and how to sponsor it such that it engenders a "friendly" or benevolent relationship with humans. There is the notion of a technological singularity, a moment when machine intelligence might supersede human intelligence. However, those in the field have not set forth any sort of robust plan for how to effect friendly AI, and many remain skeptical of this possibility.195 It is possible that blockchain technology could be a useful connector of humans and machines in a world of increasingly autonomous machine activity through Dapps, DAOs, and DACs that might eventually give way to AI.
Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence by Calum Chace
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It also boasts some Hollywood glamour, with Alan Alda and Morgan Freeman on the advisory board, along with technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has donated $10m of his personal money to the institute. 8.6 – Conclusion We do not yet have a foolproof way to ensure that the first AGI is a Friendly AI. In fact we don't yet know how best to approach the problem. But we have only just begun, and the resources allocated to the problem are small: Nick Bostrom estimated in 2014 that only six people in the world are working full-time on the Friendly AI problem, whereas many thousands of people work full-time on projects that could well contribute to the creation of the first AGI. (50) He argued that this equation needed urgent re-balancing. A very experienced AI researcher told me in spring 2015 that Bostrom's estimate was significantly too low, and that many more AI researchers spend much of their time thinking about Friendly AI as part of their everyday jobs. Even if that is correct, I suspect Bostrom is still right about the imbalance, and the truth will emerge if we have the kind of debate I argue for in the next, concluding chapter.
The upshot is that there are seven billion of us and we are shaping much of the planet according to our will (regardless of whether that is a good idea or not), whereas there are fewer than 300,000 chimpanzees, and whether they become extinct or not depends entirely on the actions of humans. A superintelligence could become not just twice as smart as humans, but smarter by many orders of magnitude. It is hard to escape the conclusion that our future will depend on its decisions and its actions. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? In other words, would a superintelligence be a "Friendly AI"? (Friendly AI, or FAI, denotes an AGI that is beneficial for humans rather than one that seeks social approbation and company. It also refers to the project to make sure that AGI is beneficial.) 7.2 – Optimistic scenarios: to immortality and beyond The ultimate problem solver Imagine having a big sister endowed with superhuman wisdom, insight and ingenuity. Her cleverness enables her to solve all our personal, inter-personal, social, political and economic problems.
What is clear is that a negative outcome cannot be ruled out. So if we take seriously the idea that a superintelligence may appear on the Earth in the foreseeable future, we should certainly be thinking about how to ensure that the event is a positive one for ourselves and our descendants. We should be taking steps to ensure that the first AGI is a friendly AI. PART FOUR: FAI Friendly Artificial Intelligence CHAPTER 8 CAN WE ENSURE THAT SUPERINTELLIGENCE IS SAFE? As we saw in the last chapter, Friendly AI (FAI) is the project of ensuring that the world's superintelligences are safe and useful for humans. The central argument of this book is that we need to address this challenge successfully. It may well turn out to be the most important challenge facing this generation and the next. Indeed it may turn out to be the most important challenge humanity ever faces. 8.1 – Stop before you start Faced with the unpalatable possibilities explored in the last chapter, perhaps we should try to avoid the problem by preventing the arrival of AGI in the first place.
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World by James D. Miller
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Even if Eliezer and the Singularity Institute have no realistic chance of creating a friendly AI, they still easily justify their institute's existence. As Michael Anissimov, media director for the Institute, once told me in a personal conversation, at the very least the Institute has reduced the chance of humanity's destruction by repeatedly telling artificial-intelligence programmers about the threat of unfriendly AI. The Singularity Institute works toward the only goal I consider worthy of charitable dollars: increasing the survival prospects of mankind. Anna Salamon of the Singularity Institute did a credible back-of-the-envelope calculation showing that, based on some reasonable estimates of the effectiveness of friendly AI research and the harm of an unfriendly Singularity, donating one dollar to research on friendly AI will on average save over one life because slightly decreasing the odds that the seven billion current inhabitants of Earth will die yields you a huge average expected benefit.105 This expected benefit goes way up if you factor in people who are not yet born.
Within a year, we will probably have the technical ability to activate a seed AI, but once the Chinese threat has been annihilated, our team will have no reason to hurry and could take a decade to fine-tune their seed AI. If we delay, any intelligence explosion we eventually create will have an extremely high probability of yielding a friendly AI. Some people on our team think that, given another decade, they will be able to mathematically prove that the seed AI will turn into a friendly ultra-AI. A friendly AI would allow trillions and trillions of people to eventually live their lives, and mankind and our descendants could survive to the end of the universe in utopia. In contrast, an unfriendly AI would destroy us. I have decided to make the survival of humanity my priority. Consequently, since a thermonuclear war would nontrivially increase the chance of human survival, I believe that it's my moral duty to initiate war, even though my war will kill billions of people.
If the firm really did gain the option to achieve utopia, everyone, including the firm's investors, would want the firm to exercise this option. The firm, therefore, wouldn't be able to raise start-up capital from small, self-interested investors. So now pretend that at the time the firm tries to raise capital there is a well-developed theory of friendly AI, which provides programmers with a framework for creating AI that is extremely likely to be well disposed toward humanity and create a utopia if it undergoes an intelligence explosion. To raise funds from self-interested investors, an AI-building firm would need to pick a research and development path that would make it difficult for the firm ever to use the friendly AI framework. Unfortunately, this means that any intelligence explosion the firm unintentionally brings about would be less likely to be utopian than if the firm had used the friendly framework. MULTIPLE AI-BUILDERS Multiple AI-building firms would increase the odds of a bad Singularity.
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It's such a compelling argument, you see. But compulsion is not a property of arguments; it is a property of minds that process arguments. So the reason I'm arguing against the ghost isn't just to make the point that (1) Friendly AI has to be explicitly programmed and (2) the laws of physics do not forbid Friendly AI. (Though of course I take a certain interest in establishing this.) I also wish to establish the notion of a mind as a causal, lawful, physical system in which there is no irreducible central ghost that looks over the neurons/code and decides whether they are good suggestions. (There is a concept in Friendly AI of deliberately programming an FAI to review its own source code and possibly hand it back to the programmers. But the mind that reviews is not irreducible, it is just the mind that you created.
He's just making Eliezer1997's strategy even better by including a contingency plan for "the unlikely event that life turns out to be meaningless" . . . . . . which means that Eliezer2001 now has a line of retreat away from his mistake. I don't just mean that Eliezer2001 can say "Friendly AI is a contingency plan," rather than screaming "OOPS!" I mean that Eliezer2001 now actually has a contingency plan. If Eliezer2001 starts to doubt his 1997 metaethics, the intelligence explosion has a fallback strategy, namely Friendly AI. Eliezer2001 can question his metaethics without it signaling the end of the world. And his gradient has been smoothed; he can admit a 10% chance of having previously been wrong, then a 20% chance. He doesn't have to cough out his whole mistake in one huge lump. If you think this sounds like Eliezer2001 is too slow, I quite agree. Eliezer1996–2000's strategies had been formed in the total absence of "Friendly AI" as a consideration. The whole idea was to get a superintelligence, any superintelligence, as fast as possible—codelet soup, ad-hoc heuristics, evolutionary programming, open-source, anything that looked like it might work—preferably all approaches simultaneously in a Manhattan Project.
Good's older term, "intelligence explosion," to help distinguish his views from other futurist predictions, such as Ray Kurzweil's exponential technological progress thesis.2 Technologies like smarter-than-human AI seem likely to result in large societal upheavals, for the better or for the worse. Yudkowsky coined the term "Friendly AI theory" to refer to research into techniques for aligning an AGI's preferences with the preferences of humans. At this point, very little is known about when generally intelligent software might be invented, or what safety approaches would work well in such cases. Present-day autonomous AI can already be quite challenging to verify and validate with much confidence, and many current techniques are not likely to generalize to more intelligent and adaptive systems. "Friendly AI" is therefore closer to a menagerie of basic mathematical and philosophical questions than to a well-specified set of programming objectives. As of 2015, Yudkowsky's views on the future of AI continue to be debated by technology forecasters and AI researchers in industry and academia, who have yet to converge on a consensus position.
Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence by Stuart Armstrong
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So all is doomed and we're heading to hell in a digitally engineered handbasket? Well, not entirely. Some effort has been made to make the AI transition safer. Kudos must be given to Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom, who saw and understood the risks early on. Yudkowsky uses the term "Friendly AI" to describe an AI which does what we want even as it improves its own intelligence. In 2000 he cofounded an organization now called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), which holds math research workshops tackling open problems in Friendly AI theory. (MIRI also commissioned and published this book.) Meanwhile, Nick Bostrom founded the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), a research group within the University of Oxford. FHI is dedicated to analyzing and reducing all existential risks—risks that could drive humanity to extinction or dramatically curtail its potential, of which AI risk is just one example.
But why would an alien mind such as the AI react in comparable ways? Are we not simply training the AI to give the correct answer in training situations? The whole approach is a constraint problem: in the space of possible AI minds, we are going to give priority to those minds that pass successfully through this training process and reassure us that they're safe. Is there some quantifiable way of measuring how likely this is to produce a human-friendly AI at the end of it? If there isn't, why are we putting any trust in it? These problems remain barely addressed, so though it is possible to imagine a safe AI being developed using the current approaches (or their descendants), it feels extremely unlikely. Hence we shouldn't put our trust in the current crop of experts to solve the problem. More work is urgently, perhaps desperately, needed. * * * 1.
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In the future, however, more and more funding for robots will come from the civilian commercial sector, especially from Japan, where robots are designed to help rather than destroy. If this trend continues, then perhaps friendly AI could become a reality. In this scenario, it is the consumer sector and market forces that will eventually dominate robotics, so that there will be a vast commercial interest in investing in friendly AI. MERGING WITH ROBOTS In addition to friendly AI, there is also another option: merging with our creations. Instead of simply waiting for robots to surpass us in intelligence and power, we should try to enhance ourselves, becoming superhuman in the process. Most likely, I believe, the future will proceed with a combination of these two goals, i.e., building friendly AI and also enhancing ourselves. This is an option being explored by Rodney Brooks, former director of the famed MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Douglas Hofstadter has said, "It's as if you took a lot of good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid." No one knows how this will play out. But I think the most likely scenario is the following. MOST LIKELY SCENARIO: FRIENDLY AI First, scientists will probably take simple measures to ensure that robots are not dangerous. At the very least, scientists can put a chip in robot brains to automatically shut them off if they have murderous thoughts. In this approach, all intelligent robots will be equipped with a fail-safe mechanism that can be switched on by a human at any time, especially when a robot exhibits errant behavior.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
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Also see note 30 above. Yudkowsky formed the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) to develop "Friendly AI," intended to "create cognitive content, design features, and cognitive architectures that result in benevolence" before near-human or better-than-human Als become possible. SIAI has developed The SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI: "Friendly AI," http://www.singinst.org/friendly/. Ben Goertzel and his Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute have also examined issues related to developing friendly AI; his current focus is on developing the Novamente AI Engine, a set of learning algorithms and architectures. Peter Voss, founder of Adaptive A.I., Inc., has also collaborated on friendly-AI issues: http://adaptiveai.com/. 46. Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies, http://ifctech.com. Disclosure: The author is an early investor in and adviser to IFCT. 47.
Vaupel, "Broken Limits to Life Expectancy," Science 296.5570 (May 10,2002): 1029–31. 29. Steve Bowman and Helit Barel, Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Terrorist Threat, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, December 8, 1999, http://www.cnie.org/nle/crsreports/international/inter-75.pdf. 30. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, "Creating Friendly AI 1.0, The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures" (2001), The Singularity Institute, http://www.singinst.org/CFAI/; Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, "What Is Friendly AI?" May 3, 2001, http://www.KurzweilAI.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0172.html. 31. Ted Kaczynski, "The Unabomber's Manifesto," May 14, 2001, http://www.KurzweilAI.netlmeme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0182.html. 32. Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (New York: Times Books, 2003). 33.
But the dangers it presents are also profound precisely because of its amplification of intelligence. Intelligence is inherently impossible to control, so the various strategies that have been devised to control nanotechnology (for example, the "broadcast architecture" described below) won't work for strong AI. There have been discussions and proposals to guide AI development toward what Eliezer Yudkowsky calls "friendly AI"30 (see the section "Protection from 'Unfriendly' Strong AI," p. 420). These are useful for discussion, but it is infeasible today to devise strategies that will absolutely ensure that future AI embodies human ethics and values. Returning to the Past? In his essay and presentations Bill Joy eloquently describes the plagues of centuries past and how new self-replicating technologies, such as mutant bioengineered pathogens and nanobots run amok, may bring back long-forgotten pestilence.
Warnings by Richard A. Clarke
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His work focuses on foundational mathematical research to ensure (he hopes) that artificial intelligence ultimately has only a positive impact on humanity. The ultimate problem: how to keep humanity from losing control of a machine of its own creation, to prevent artificial intelligence from becoming, in the words of James Barrat in the title of his 2013 book, Our Final Invention.6 A divisive figure, Yudkowsky is well known in academic circles and the Silicon Valley scene as the coiner of the term "friendly AI." His thesis is simple, though his solution is not: if we are to have any hope against superintelligence, we need to code it properly from the beginning. The answer, Eliezer believes, is one of morality. AI must be programmed with a set of ethical codes that align with humanity's. Though it is his life's only work, Yudkowsky is pretty sure he will fail. Humanity, he tells us, is likely doomed.
Yudkowsky believes superintelligence must be designed from the start with something approximating ethics. He envisions this as a system of checks and balances so that advanced AI growth is auditable and controllable, so that even as it continues to learn, advance, and reprogram itself, it will not evolve out of its own benign coding. Such preprogrammed measures will ensure that superintelligence will "behave as we intend even in the absence of immediate human supervision."12 Eliezer calls this "friendly AI." According to Yudkowsky, once AI gains the ability to broadly reprogram itself, it will be far too late to implement safeguards, so society needs to prepare now for the intelligence explosion. Yet this preparation is complicated by the sporadic and unpredictable nature of scientific advancement and the numerous secret efforts to create superintelligence around the world. No supranational organization can track all of the efforts, much less predict when or which one of them will succeed.
Eliezer told us that humanity's best hope is to perhaps create one highly funded, highly secure, multilateral effort to develop a friendly superintelligence with himself (or perhaps another futurist he approves of) at the helm. The work of this massive global Manhattan Project would be explicitly "for the benefit of humanity internationally." It simultaneously would ban, starve, or simply outpace other, less-well-thought-out efforts to develop superintelligence. Once created, this friendly AI would be unleashed to attack and destroy any competing efforts, ensuring that the only superintelligence in existence would help, not destroy, humankind. Yudkowsky rejects the idea that a superintelligence should, or could, be tailored to parochial national security interests, believing instead that any solution must be considered at the human species level. "This stuff does not stop being lethal because it's in American hands, or Australian hands, or even in Finland's hands," he told us, mildly annoyed.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
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The programmers may try to guard against this possibility by secretly monitoring the AI's source code and the internal workings of its mind; but a smart-enough AI would realize that it might be under surveillance and adjust its thinking accordingly.2 The AI might find subtle ways of concealing its true capabilities and its incriminating intent.3 (Devising clever escape plans might, incidentally, also be a convergent strategy for many types of friendly AI, especially as they mature and gain confidence in their own judgments and capabilities. A system motivated to promote our interests might be making a mistake if it allowed us to shut it down or to construct another, potentially unfriendly AI.) We can thus perceive a general failure mode, wherein the good behavioral track record of a system in its juvenile stages fails utterly to predict its behavior at a more mature stage.
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Vintage. Yaeger, Larry. 1994. "Computational Genetics, Physiology, Metabolism, Neural Systems, Learning, Vision, and Behavior or PolyWorld: Life in a New Context." In Proceedings of the Artificial Life III Conference, edited by C. G. Langton, 263–98. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2001. Creating Friendly AI 1.0: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures. Machine Intelligence Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, June 15. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2002. "The AI-Box Experiment." Retrieved January 15, 2012. Available at http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2004. Coherent Extrapolated Volition. Machine Intelligence Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, May. Yudkowsky, Eliezer. 2007.
Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms: Proceedings of the Agi Workshop 2006 by Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang
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Also, it is possible to directly edit the memory of a system to modify or implant certain knowledge. In theory, all of these shortcuts should be equivalent to certain possible experience of the system, so they do not conflict with the principle that all the knowledge of NARS comes, directly or indirectly, from experience. One important issue to be handled through education is ethics. Unlike argued by some other researchers, NARS is not an attempt to design a "friendly AI". As far as its initial state is concerned, the system is ethically neutral, since it can has any beliefs and goals. To make a NARS implementation "human friendly" means to give it certain beliefs and goals, which is an education mission, not a design mission. Even if something like Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" is implanted into the system's memory (which is possible), it still cannot fully control the system's behaviors, due to the insufficiency of knowledge and resources in the system.
[Audience]: Ben, you seem more optimistic. Could you talk about your perspective? [Ben Goertzel]: Well I have a quite different opinion than that of Steve Grand in that I don't think an amazing conceptual breakthrough on the level of the discovery of the quantum or curved 4D space-time, or something like that, is needed to create general intelligence. It might be needed to create provably stable friendly AI, like Eliezer Yudkowsky would like. I tend to think of the brain as a complex system composed of a bunch of evolved kluges for solving particular problems, which have been hacked together and adapted by evolution. I think if you assemble subcomponents solving the appropriate set of specialized problems, as well as a fairly weak general problem solver, and they are hooked together in a knowledge representation that works for all the components, with learning mechanisms that let each component learn from each other -- then you are going to have an intelligent mind that can be taught.
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence by John Brockman
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The system can be used between human parties or interspecies parties, exactly because it's not necessary to know, trust, or understand the other entity, just the code (the language of machines). Over time, trust can grow through reputation. Blockchain technology could be used to enforce friendly AI and mutually beneficial interspecies interaction. Someday, important transactions (like identity authentication and resource transfer) will be conducted on smart networks that require confirmation by independent consensus mechanisms, such that only bona fide transactions by reputable entities are executed. While perhaps not a full answer to the problem of enforcing friendly AI, decentralized smart networks like blockchains are a system of checks and balances helping to provide a more robust solution to situations of future uncertainty. Trust-building models for interspecies digital intelligence interaction could include both game-theoretic checks-and-balances systems like blockchains and also, at the higher level, frameworks that put entities on the same plane of shared objectives.
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension by Samuel Arbesman
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naches is also a framework: The roboticist Hans Moravec has referred to our more powerful descendants as "mind children," and a similar approach characterizes a short story by the science fiction writer Ted Chiang, in which technologically enhanced humans have long surpassed "regular" humans in their ability to make scientific discoveries. In the end, little to nothing is understood by (nonenhanced) humanity. But that's okay, because "We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally developed by humans, and they were no smarter than we." See Luke Muehlhauser and Nick Bostrom, "Why We Need Friendly AI," Think 36, no. 13 (Spring 2014), 41–47; and Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (New York: Tor Books, 2003), 203. understand the most complex parts of the world: In many cases, we might even want to have a technology too complex to understand, because it means that it is sophisticated and powerful. a grab bag of intriguing ideas: The World of Wonders: A Record of Things Wonderful in Nature, Science, and Art (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, exact year of publication unknown), https://archive.org/details/worldofwondersre00londrich.
Pandora's Brain by Calum Chace
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The European Commission was proposing an autonomous international agency with exceptional powers of inspection and restraint in order to stop rogue governments and individuals from doing any research that could lead to the creation of an AGI. This was a step too far for him, as it was for most Americans. 'That game is far from over. And I wouldn't be surprised if a coalition of the institutes which are researching human-friendly AI algorithms announced a breakthrough this spring. There's been a lot of unusually cordial traffic between several of the bigger US-based ones during the winter. Anyway, fortunately, none of that affects what we're doing here at the Foundation. We've managed to put clear blue water between brain preservation research and AI research in the public's mind.' 'True. It's funny, though,' David mused.
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One key point, though, is that the risks and rewards of AGI must be considered in the broader context of all the other technologies currently under development, and all the social, psychological, and technological change likely to come in the next decades and centuries. It's not as though our choices are "life goes on exactly as is" versus "life as it is plus super-powerful AI." Various technologies are advancing rapidly and society is changing accordingly, and the rate of advancement of AGI is just one aspect in the mix. I don't think there are any magic bullets to resolve the dilemmas of AGI ethics. There will almost surely be no provably Friendly AI, in spite of the wishes of Eliezer Yudkowsky (2008) and some others. Nor, in my best guess, will there be an Artilect War in which pro-AGI and anti-AGI forces battle to the death with doomsday machines, as Hugo de Garis (2005) foresees. But I don't pretend to be able to see exactly what the outcome will be. The important thing, as I see it, is that the human race as a whole engages as closely and intelligently as possible with AGI as it evolves – so that, as AGI comes about, it's not a matter of "us versus them", but rather a matter of AGIs and humans, that have become inseparable on various levels, moving forward together into new realms of science, technology, interaction, and experience.


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UCSI University's Forum To Shed Light On Issues In ResarchOctober 25, 2018 | Campus News
UCSI University's Faculty of Business and Information Science is holding a Research Forum on 30 October 2018. This year-end event aims to instil and inculcate a vibrant research culture for the university. As such, the forum's objectives are to have an intellectual discourse on research issues, to further instil research interests and to explore research opportunities.
Among the distinguished speakers for this event are Professor Alan Wilson from Strathclyde University, Scotland and Professor Geoffrey Williams, a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
Professor Williams will be speaking on 'Balancing Teaching and Research' including setting research goals and rewards, establishing research clusters, blending research, supervision and teaching as well as developing international networks.
He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Market Research and Journal of Brand Management.
Professor Williams will be speaking on Higher Education Institution sustainability and research impacts. He has been working and living in Malaysia for 14 years and his recent works focused on Higher Education Management with an interest in sustainability, social responsibility, economic impact and policy analysis.
The forum will be moderated by UCSI's Faculty of Business and Information Science Research and Postgraduate Studies head, Professor Dr Abu Bakar Sade. UCSI's Department of Actuarial Science and Applied Statistics lecturer Professor Dr Ong Seng Huat will also speak at the event.
Research is a journey and UCSI intends to pursue it continuously. Underpinning such life-long journey is none other than the cultural elements of mutual respect among researchers, being happy and loving the journey of discovery. These are the key research culture elements that the forum aims to deliberate and share among participants.
The research forum is also to encourage collaboration that will unlock opportunities for knowledge sharing and transfer of skills among the researchers as well as provide new insights and stimulate creative thinking to tackle real world problems.
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Mopar's Speedshops Announced
Mopar®'s Speedshops Focus on Performance Business: Muscle, Street and Speed
Las Vegas, Nov 04, 2003 -
One year after announcing the creation of a new retail concept, Speedshops, Chrysler Groups Mopar® brand returned to the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show to announce the official grand opening of Mopar Speedshops nationwide. Innovative product announcements and Mopars new category-specific performance catalogs also highlighted the manufacturers presence at SEMA.
Mopar has been an automotive industry icon since the 1960s, when it defined the muscle car era with performance parts and accessories for car enthusiasts. The timeline has changed -- from the 1960s and 70s to a new millennium -- but the passions of car lovers havent. Today, Mopar announced that it will focus special attention on three specific groups of enthusiasts: The "Muscle" group with which Mopar has always enjoyed a special relationship, the new Street crowd thats satisfying a new generations passion for cars and the serious racers whose focus is on "Speed."
The Speedshop is a showcase for the new line of performance parts and accessories from Mopar. The Dodge SRT-4, Sport Compact Car of the Year for 2003, offers a unique platform for customization. Mopars Stage 1 Turbo Upgrade and Turbo Blow Off Valve have already been a retail success with these owners. With 10 new Chrysler Group launches in the 2004 calendar year, the Speedshops will be ready to cater to customers new car parts and accessory needs.
Last year, the response was overwhelmingly positive when Mopar introduced the Mopar Speedshop concept at the SEMAShow and to dealers. Hundreds of Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge dealerships have inquired about becoming a Speedshop dealer. These dealers understand that the Mopar Speedshop is a unique opportunity to create a store within a store and sell the parts their customers demand. Whatever the customers needs, interests or passions, the Mopar Speedshop is a retail environment that has it all in the way of Mopar products.
As a result of the positive response to the Speedshop concept, dealers will open 40 Mopar Speedshops across the country in the coming months.
"We want the Mopar Speedshops in dealerships to become the places that enthusiasts think of and go to when they are enhancing the performance or appearance of their Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge vehicle," said Christine Cortez, Senior Vice President - Global Service and Parts. "Whether the focus of our customers passion is on muscle cars, the new street scene or on serious racing, Mopar Speedshops are where they will find the latest innovation in performance and accessories," added Cortez.
Mopar Speedshops Give Dealers a Connection to the Tuner Trend
SEMA has been the main event for aftermarket companies to display what was possible with creativity and hard work. Since 1976, Mopar has been a part of SEMA and has grown with the organization as the popularity of car hobbyists and enthusiasts has exploded into a $26 billion annual business.
The goal of the Mopar Speedshop concept is to provide a place where car enthusiasts can go to get authentic Mopar parts, talk to product experts and generally "hang out" with other Mopar car lovers.
Through both its retail Speedshops and three new category-specific catalogs, Mopar is able to satisfy the needs of enthusiasts, regardless of their passion: Muscle, Street or Speed.
"Identifying the three types of Mopar enthusiasts allows us to offer an incredible array of products in the Speedshops," said Kevin Miller, Senior Manager - Mopar Performance and Brand Marketing. "We will have the items the car buffs are looking for to express their creativity and personalities through their vehicles using Mopar parts."
Sport compact drag racing standout Shaun Carlson , NHRA Funny Car driver Gary Scelzi and sprint car stars Danny Lasoski and J.J. Yeley will be on hand when the SEMA Speedshop opens. Carlsons Dodge SRT-4 Pro FWD drag car has recorded the fastest quarter-mile time ever for a front
Anyone know if there are any computer upgrades for us Non-Turbo folks that will increase hp?
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Thanks Punch, I should have been more specific, I was wondering if DC had come out with any?
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Anyone know where I can get the single guage pod?
I've only seen the double and triple pillow pods, there is a single dash mount pod.
This was posted by 'flash' in the GT Turbo Interior/Exterior Forum on 09/23/03.
"I put in a single pod. I just could only find an generic overlay style that was black. All the ones that replaced the colum piece were either 2 or 3 pods. It came out good though. I had to paint it with plastic paint and it matched perfect. I rounded the corners on it and formed it to the colum. THe only thing I dont like is the 4 srcews on the corners which are painted grey also. Im Am looking for a better looking fastener. Paint and pod were $25 and Im happy with just the one." Flash
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Mopar Speedshops in Canadian Dealerships?
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Oxygen Rerouter
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Oxygen Rerouter is a technology.
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Oxygen Rerouter is a technology that allows the player to use their Life Support system as an emergency oxygen supply, if their other oxygen sources have been depleted.
It needs to be installed in an exosuit inventory slot for it to take effect.
Game description[edit | edit source]
Upgrades the Aeration Membrane of the Exosuit to harvest oxygen from the Life Support system in the event of a breathing emergency, allowing the user to resurface and seek conventional fuel supplies.
Note: Long-term conversion of life support energy to breathable gas is not recommended, and may result in life no longer being supported.
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The blueprint can be acquired from a Technology Merchant for 240 .
Crafting[edit | edit source]
Oxygen Rerouter can be built using a blueprint and the following ingredients:
- Chromatic Metal x100 + Salt Refractor x1 + Crystal Sulphide x6 → Oxygen Rerouter
Oxygen Rerouter can be repaired using the following ingredients:
- Chromatic Metal x50 + Salt Refractor x1 + Crystal Sulphide x3
Oxygen Rerouter can be dismantled after construction, returning the following ingredients:
- Oxygen Rerouter → Chromatic Metal x50 + Crystal Sulphide x3
Additional information[edit | edit source]
Release history[edit | edit source]
- Abyss - Added as a technology.


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Any cricket fans who are parents will know the struggle of trying to get a stroller into a cricket ground. The stadiums are often packed out, especially during limited overs cricket matches, so they advise against bringing a stroller with you. If you do, you might even be refused entry due to the fact that there is no place to put it and that it could become a hazard in the event of an emergency.
One Cricket Ground in England is Trying to Change That
Those of us who are cricket fans will have heard of Lord's – after all, it is the home of cricket. Lord's is one of the most spectacular cricket venues in the world and players and fans alike love nothing more than playing or watching a cricket game at this iconic stadium. However, the one issue that people have with it is that it cannot accommodate strollers.
Those in charge of Lord's, the Marylebone Cricket Club, have decided that it is about time that something was done to fix this. Kumar Sangakkara, the great Sri Lankan batsman, is the current President of the MCC and he has decided that enough is enough. He was elected in May 2019, making him the first non-British President of this prestigious club.
Every three months, the MCC release a magazine for their members to keep them up to date with what is happening. In the latest edition, Sangakkara announced that Lord's would be creating a facility where parents who came to watch matches could leave their strollers free of charge.
In a statement he said, "I have been involved in cricket for many decades now and it has always bothered me that parents with young children have to carry them to the stadiums on match day because there are no pushchair facilities. This can be a huge inconvenience and can even take away from the experience. We always want people to enjoy their day out at this majestic venue, so we knew that something needed to be done to rectify this issue. Therefore, we all sat down and discussed what we could do. In the end, we decided that we would build a shed just outside the stadium that can facilitate up to 100 pushchairs. On arrival at the ground, you just need to inform the attendant that you have a pushchair and they will give you a numbered label. Someone will then come and take your pushchair and you can collect it once the game has finished. This way, parents won't be burdened with having to carry their children to the ground and there will be no blockages in the aisles should there be a need for a quick exit from the ground."
Hopefully More Grounds Around the World Will Follow Suit
Lord's is the only stadium at the moment that has such a facility for strollers, but if it is a huge success for Lord's then we are certain that other stadiums all over the world we start to copy them.
If they do, then a day out at the cricket will surely be a lot better for parents with young children as they won't have to spend time trying to work out how they are going to get their children to the cricket stadium.
If this idea takes off, then cricket-loving parents all over the world will have Kumar Sangakkara to thank.


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Over the course of the last two weeks or so I've forayed into reading popular science books on physics for the first time. Namely, I read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and then The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Both dealt with relativity, quantum and particle physics, and cosmology. Greene's book went further, introducing the "time's arrow" concept and also discussing superstring theory and ending with some speculations on the future of physics research (a few up-and-coming experiments, and teleportation, wormholes, and time travel).
Overall, I think that Greene is a better writer. Both authors are respected physicists at the forefront of their profession, although I think there is no doubt that Hawking is in a class of his own. Despite superior intelligence, this detracts from Hawking's writing since he seems extremely eager to highlight his own discoveries, relevant as they are, in order to give himself credit. Greene does mention his own work but he comes off as much less intimidating to the reader. Even with ideas that he himself labels difficult to explain without the math, he comes off as lucid and easy to understand. I was also thankful for extensive endnotes which gave fuller explanations to advanced or "mathematically inclined" readers, as well as pointers to further reading.
However, certain things detract from the Greene book as well. For one, he really loves analogies involving The Simpsons or The X-Files, which get kind of "lame" after a while. The elephant in the room is also, of course, string theory. Although he gives quite a fair account of both sides of the string theory debate, he should not take up 100 pages discussing the topic.
For readers unfamiliar with the controversy surrounding string theory, the problem is this – in the last century physicists have come up with two major frameworks for deviations from classical Newtonian mechanics – quantum physics to describe the very small (sub-atomic) and general relativity to describe the very massive and very fast (within an order of magnitude of the speed of light). However, as classical mechanics are now shown to be invalid theoretically but very good approximations of "mid-sized" phenomena, it isn't clear where quantum physics and relativity should meet. Combining the equations from the two theories yields nonsense. However, superstring theory, which suggests that sub-atomic particles are made up of vibrating one-dimensional superstrings, which are made up of pure energy, successfully combines the theories, and is the first framework to do so.
The problem is the conflict of superstring theory with the science-philosophical subfield of confirmation theory. According to the scientific method, roughly summarizing, observation should yield hypotheses that predict the possibility and impossibility of certain phenomena, which can then be tested for using experiments. At this point, superstring theory eludes any kind of empirical measurement. The other problem is that the equations have been massaged extremely rigorously so that while they conform data now, they were initially off by several orders of magnitude. Whoops. There are issues with changing your hypothesis part of the way through – that's violating the scientific method. And the biggest problem is that with each update to the theory, spatial dimensions are seemingly arbitrarily added for the equations to work. Hmmm.
Overall, Greene, who is a leading string theorist, has gotten kind of a bad rap in the physics community for his enthusiasm. Just look at this xkcd:
Well, that's what you get for committing to something like that. Good luck, Brian. In any case, if you're a layperson who wants to learn about theoretical physics, I definitely recommend Greene (The Elegant Universe was a Pulitzer finalist), but don't pay too much attention to the string theory stuff.


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Program Landing
Your Closest Crazymaker
We have all been invited to be a part of a mission that brings meaning and purpose to our lives. But someone - a crazymaker who is very close to us - is trying to convince us that getting involved is a really bad idea.
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Born and raised in Alabama, Reginald sung his first solo in church at age 3, and started playing piano at age 8. His teen years were spent studying classical piano and saxophone. During this time, Yarbrough also began studying jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock, and gospel music, which is the primary stylistic inspiration for his new self-titled album. During this time, he became the pianist/saxophonist for his home church, played lead tenor saxophone in the Birmingham Youth Jazz Ensemble, and attended high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. Yarbrough's unique way of hearing, seeing, and interpreting life is the focus of his debut album, "4 Right Turns". Over the years, during his artistic voyages, he has gradually familiarized himself with all musical styles and several instruments, earning him the title "utility man" by one of his jazz professors because of his versatility. He is a man with a "will that exceeds that of most people." This gifted musician, singer, songwriter, arranger, scorer, and producer has captured the hearts of many, and his "never give up" mentality is what will help him fulfill his goals as he travels the world.


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More from Briana and Matt's wedding!
Did anything funny or unexpected thing happen? Nothing out of the ordinary happened. Our wedding actually went so smoothly and perfectly! I could not believe it!
What was your first dance song? The song during our first dance was Brad Paisley "That's When You Find Yourself". It's not a well-known song, but it plays at the end of the movie "Cars". We heard this song when we were first dating and knew it was ours from then on. We LOVE country music 🙂
Favorite detail of wedding – My favorite detail about our wedding was our cake! I drew out the design for it myself and our friend Denis made it all himself. It was the most delicious, perfect, beautiful cake ever! I also LOVED that the boys wore hats for the reception. Matt and my dad are always in hats and felt so much more relaxed being able to wear them.
What was your most memorable moment? Our most memorable moment was when our perfect son Landon was born. The moment we heard him cry we instantly had tears in our eyes. And the moment we first saw him, our whole lives changed. He is the biggest blessing and the best things that's ever happened to us!
Thanks for sharing Briana! It looked like such a great wedding. And… little Landon is the cutest. 🙂


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What does it mean to be a "fan"? I'm not certain but I'm certain that is has changed. I see and hear people saying things like they're a "fan" of sunlight or peanut butter, and at the same time, I would have said that you're a fan of a band if they owned everything that they put out, but with Amazon, and Ebay and Itunes, that's hardly the commitment it once was. So, is being a fan simply a matter of a passing fancy, or having surplus cash? Is it more involved than that, or should it be? Have you seen the episode of Portlandia where Carrie and Fred hire Aimee Mann as their maid? Some interesting questions there about what it means to be a fan- is it a demand made upon the artist? Is it some kind of obsessional fantasy projection? What does a Fan owe the subject of their Fandom? What do those subjects owe their fans?
I believe the answers to those questions have changed, and I don't think that's either bad or good. It's just different. I might be stuck in an outmoded viewpoint, but I think that while no one owes anyone in a "fan" type of relationship, there is a certain amount of devotion necessary to call someone a "Fan"- the only real question is in which way it is appropriate to express that devotion.


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Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
Episode 159 - (ISC)2 and Cyber Security Advocacy in the Asia Pacific - Tony Vizza
July 01, 2019
Interview with Tony Vizza, Director for Cyber Security Advocacy - APAC at (ISC)² and presenting at the ASIAL Conference, part of the Security Expo 2019, 24 - 26 July, International Convention Centre, Sydney.
Tony is responsible for Cyber Security Advocacy initiatives for the Asia-Pacific region for (ISC)², the world's largest not-for-profit association of certified cyber security professionals. The interview discusses IT/OT convergence and Tony's scheduled preentation "Navigating Complex Risk Environment & Managing Challenges of Cyber Physical Security Threats"
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Party with Us at Star-Spangled Supper on July 3!
We're throwing a patriotic party as our annual Star-Spangled Supper returns on Wednesday, July 3. The dinner, which usually sells out, is held in conjunction with the Pops on the River performance by the Chattanooga Symphony.
Hosted by the Purple Lady Sonia Young, this fundraising event features barbecue by Sugar's Ribs, ice cream from Clumpies, and wine and beer for sale. There will be live music, and guests can enjoy the symphony concert and the fireworks afterwards from our riverfront terrace and lawn. And on a hot, muggy evening, patrons always appreciate the air-conditioned lobby and inside restrooms.
Admission includes free parking. Parking passes must be picked up at the box office by Friday, June 28.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and dinner is served at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $50 for adults, $10 for 12 and under, and free for kids 3 and under.
Tickets are available by calling 423.267.8534 or by visiting TheatreCentre.com. This event usually sells out so we recommend buying early!