> The intelligence of a human is specialized in the problem of being human.
And then you have people able to express and derive complex theoretical relationships by manipulating mathematical symbols, or automate processes by programming machines, or capable of utilizing their spatial visualization to massively boost their memory. We invented that stuff. We know artificial intelligence is capable of inventing stuff because we are.
The author seems hilariously unaware of the fact that humans can learn to solve/optimize many arbitrary problems. Like, holy shit, have you ever played video games?
> In practice, geniuses with exceptional cognitive abilities usually live overwhelmingly banal lives, and very few of them accomplish anything of note. Of the people who have attempted to take over the world, hardly any seem to have had an exceptional intelligence.
The author conflates intelligence and purpose. Being smart doesn't imply the motivation to accomplish grand things. In fact, we're biologically hardwired to enjoy entirely mundane things: food, sex, love, relaxation, conversation.
> A single human brain, on its own, is not capable of designing a greater intelligence than itself. (...) Will the superhuman AIs of the future, developed collectively over centuries, have the capability to develop AI greater than themselves? No, no more than any of us can.
Human brains don't scale vertically (or otherwise). Meanwhile, once you have a satisfactory facial recognition algorithm, you can run it to recognize faces in a video at 1000x realtime speed, or in 1000 simultaneous realtime streams. The AI doesn't even have to be smarter than human! 1000 dumb humans communicating at gigabit speeds and solving problems while you're wondering what to have for lunch is a force to be reckoned with.
And then you have people able to express and derive complex theoretical relationships by manipulating mathematical symbols, or automate processes by programming machines, or capable of utilizing their spatial visualization to massively boost their memory. We invented that stuff. We know artificial intelligence is capable of inventing stuff because we are.
The author seems hilariously unaware of the fact that humans can learn to solve/optimize many arbitrary problems. Like, holy shit, have you ever played video games?
> In practice, geniuses with exceptional cognitive abilities usually live overwhelmingly banal lives, and very few of them accomplish anything of note. Of the people who have attempted to take over the world, hardly any seem to have had an exceptional intelligence.
The author conflates intelligence and purpose. Being smart doesn't imply the motivation to accomplish grand things. In fact, we're biologically hardwired to enjoy entirely mundane things: food, sex, love, relaxation, conversation.
> A single human brain, on its own, is not capable of designing a greater intelligence than itself. (...) Will the superhuman AIs of the future, developed collectively over centuries, have the capability to develop AI greater than themselves? No, no more than any of us can.
Human brains don't scale vertically (or otherwise). Meanwhile, once you have a satisfactory facial recognition algorithm, you can run it to recognize faces in a video at 1000x realtime speed, or in 1000 simultaneous realtime streams. The AI doesn't even have to be smarter than human! 1000 dumb humans communicating at gigabit speeds and solving problems while you're wondering what to have for lunch is a force to be reckoned with.