Chapter Fifty
Super-Intelligence
Human beings have what is called
General-Intelligence. Super-Intelligence
is an intellect that is exponentially smarter than that. A lot of people are afraid of Artificial
Intelligence becoming Super-Intelligent.
The idea encompasses lots of aspects.
Computers can think many times faster than people, and they can learn
quicker too. But they also have more
processing power, which is more than just intellectual quickness…it has to do
with memory and complexity of neural networks.
So, they are better thinkers too.
A lot of really smart people are worried about a
runaway Artificial Super-Intelligence getting out into the real world and
taking over. It would be unstoppable is
the fear. Trying to outsmart it would be
like an ant trying to outsmart you. Imagine
trying to battle an opponent who had a complete understanding of how the
universe worked, how human psychology works, how everything works, who was, to
all intents and purposes, infinitely smarter than you. It could manipulate everybody. It could predict the outcomes of all its plans
and interventions with perfect success.
Imagine it. There are people
spending millions of dollars on trying to figure out how we are going to stop a
Super-Intelligent computer, right now.
But no one thought to figure out what to do about a Super-Intelligent
dolphin, and the thing that lurked its shadow, that no one expected. If those really smart people had thought
about it much at all, they might have figured it out. But they didn’t. And here we are.
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