From one piece How close are we to creating artificial intelligence? 15 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The battle between good and evil ideas is as old as our species and will continue regardless of the hardware on which it is running.
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Plausibly a single idea stands between us and AGI.Their words
So in one respect I can agree with the AGI-is-imminent camp: it is plausible that just a single idea stands between us and the breakthrough.
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I am convinced that the whole problem of developing AGIs is a matter of philosophy, not computer science or neurophysiology
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One implication is that we must stop regarding education (of humans or AGIs alike) as instruction — as a means of transmitting existing knowledge unaltered, and causing existing values to be enacted obediently.
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Treating AGIs like ordinary computer programs would be brainwashing, slavery and tyranny.Their words
To treat AGIs like any other computer programs would constitute brainwashing, slavery, and tyranny.
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AGIs would be people.Their words
That AGIs are people has been implicit in the very concept from the outset.
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Expecting AGI without first understanding how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to fly if built tall enough.Their words
Expecting to create an AGI without first understanding in detail how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to learn to fly if we build them tall enough.
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An AGI is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from all other computer programs.Their words
An AGI is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from all other computer programs.
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Currently one of the most influential versions of the ‘induction’ approach to AGI (and to the philosophy of science) is Bayesianism, unfairly named after the 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes, who was quite innocent of the mistake.
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Thinking is criticising and correcting partly true guesses, not extrapolating from sense data.Their words
Thinking consists of criticising and correcting partially true guesses with the intention of locating and eliminating the errors and misconceptions in them, not generating or justifying extrapolations from sense data.
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Knowledge consists of conjectured explanations, guesses that need no foundations or justification.Their words
Now, the truth is that knowledge consists of conjectured explanations — guesses about what really is (or really should be, or might be) out there in all those worlds. Even in the hard sciences, these guesses have no foundations and don’t need justification.
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Because it is simply not true that knowledge comes from extrapolating repeated observations.
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I call the core functionality in question creativity: the ability to produce new explanations.
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Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible. And that is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of computation.
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The enterprise of achieving it artificially — the field of ‘artificial general intelligence’ or AGI — has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence.