[ExI] SXSW - The SINGULARITY: Humanity's Huge Techno Challenge"

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2011-03-17 18:05, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> 2011/3/13 Samantha Atkins<sjatkins at mac.com>:
>> On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
>>
>> This tosses in a not so helpful term, Singularity.  There are at least three
>> major notions of what it means as you are quite aware.   And it brings up a
>> lot of unhelpful hopes and fears.
>
> Samantha, humor me, as I'm new here. What are these three major notions?
> My view of the singularity is that runaway machine intelligence
> designs next generation machine intelligence until humanity is left in
> the dust. Is there something more to it?

I think Samantha referred to 1) accelerating change, 2) a prediction 
horizon and 3) intelligence explosion leading to superintelligence.

But there are at least ~9 notions playing around. See
http://agi-conf.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/agi10singmodels2.pdf


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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University