When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.