Sun 26 Mar 2006
Turings Cathedral
Posted by jon under Interesting, Technical
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Interesting essay by George Dyson talking about Google, information and Artificial Intelligence. This is an excerpt:
For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its existence might we expect from a true AI? Certainly not any explicit revelation, which might spark a movement to pull the plug. Anomalous accumulation or creation of wealth might be a sign, or an unquenchable thirst for raw information, storage space, and processing cycles, or a concerted attempt to secure an uninterrupted, autonomous power supply. But the real sign, I suspect, would be a circle of cheerful, contented, intellectually and physically well-nourished people surrounding the AI. There wouldn’t be any need for True Believers, or the downloading of human brains or anything sinister like that: just a gradual, gentle, pervasive and mutually beneficial contact between us and a growing something else.
How far away is the moment that we will find ourselves acknowledging GoogleAI as a new species?
