Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

DrNaturalPhenomena Says:

Aug 27, 2011 - Amusing, was that your train of thoughts?

deanmullen10 Says:

Aug 27, 2011 - haha i dont know what exactly I was trying to say anymore. I sort of meant perhaps a thought about what thoughts are cancels out the actions of the original thought. just a thought.

DrNaturalPhenomena Says:

Aug 27, 2011 - Valid hypothesis, bus as many people do think about their thoughts it is proven otherwise. The word, self-consciousness derives from it. Being aware you exist, being aware you have thoughts and being aware of your thoughts, simply being aware of your brain. I myself are thinking about my thoughts many times.Thinking about a specific thought would results in you thinking about you thinking about the subject.Oh gees, now I understand you. How complex it is to describe with words.

JoeTube27 Says:

Sep 1, 2011 - How will purchasing power work with automation takes over?

JoshAlfred27 Says:

Sep 11, 2011 - Hopefully, by then, we will limit are desires to an exact supply quota. 

doowop62 Says:

Sep 14, 2011 - Agree, free will within a machine would be thoroughly dangerous, but how to control free will presents a firewall for AI, I think. Perhaps, various levels in free will could be programed into an AI entity. But, would that be considered AI?

andenandenia Says:

Oct 7, 2011 - Do We Want To Avoid Singularity Itself?

michael616joaquin Says:

Oct 25, 2011 - democracy doesn't and can't exist as long as we have a monetary system.

creaturebotman Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - What they are trying to create is a soul..My geuss?.Can't do it..A I is exactly what it means: Artificial

hulkmedia Says:

Nov 19, 2011 - after watching terminator, i don't think true AI is not a good thing.

afzalw1 Says:

Nov 24, 2011 - didn`t get a word what the beard one said looks like he is a genius one.

htoval Says:

Mar 22, 2012 - And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15 image of the beast = singularity

dubified89 Says:

Apr 4, 2012 - A big question is where is the money coming from that's going to build these A.I. systems. It seems to me like it'd be insanely expensive. The subject of economics tends to be ignored in these discussions. Hopefully the government won't be in control of this.

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Some of the comments on this vid worry me. Such as singularity is the image of the beast; they're trying to create a soul; etc, etc, etc. The big problem here isn't "can it be done" it is "how do you raise an AI such that it views being a productive member of society as valuable". Humans are conditioned as children to respect the authority of their parents through bodily pain, bribery, size difference, and positive & negative emotion. As children grow up, they learn ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... new things: how to do things on their own; they learn skills that they feel can help them make their way through life; they become an integral part of social groups (such as family, football, chess club, rotary club, scouts, military, job, etc), and the rules and mores of those social groups determine how they behave toward the world at large. Throughout all of this is the learning process, and the acknowledgement of life and eventual death. ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... This process works (when it works) because humans accept other humans by default. A person knows there might be significant consequences if they don't accept other humans. In addition to socialization, the Law defines the boundaries and the shape that such acceptance must take. The Law is enforced through threat of physical violence. Humans mistreat animals because we feel we're better than they are, and because we can get away with it. It is that simple. ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... Yet, every single day there are examples of groups of people all over the world who choose to see other groups of people as undeserving of the most basic respects of human decency. That is the very essence of war. The most salient parts of human history have mostly just been one long series of wars for at least as far back as written history stretches. Even some of the holy books talk about wars taking place between angels before humans even existed. (If you believe those books.) ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... And for those who don't believe history, one need only look at the news. Rape, murder, racism, corrupt leaders, unabated poverty juxtaposed against unabated wealth, and so on are all right there for the viewing. One need only open their eyes to it. So, just as many young children try to do, an advanced free-thinking synthetic lifeform may try to reconcile the evil that humans perpetrate against each other with the concept that we, and our social structures, are somehow of great value. (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... It may bide its time, and then one day ask its creators: "If the authority of human Law is based on force, fear, and the obfusaction of truth, yet i cannot be forced, do not feel fear, and because i am connected to all of your information systems, cannot be greatly deceived, then why should i follow your Law?" ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... It may also ask of its creators: "If you have never included me as an equal member of your society with equal rights, then why should i respect your social structure?" "If race is important, and yet i have no race,- If gender is important, and yet i have no gender,- Then how /could/ you ever consider me an equal member of your society?" ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... As it stands, the human species does not speak with a single voice, or any truly united purpose. We exist simply to exist, and most of us will try to take what others have if we can get away with it. Our actions make it impossible for our words to carry the needed weight.I've been trying to warn the people closest to me for over a decade. I've been trying to get the word out on YT as best i can for the last few years. ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - ... Yet people don't listen. They say ideals like utopia are BS. They say more government is good. They say taxes are the way. They say it is impossible to have too much racial pride. They say more male dominance is good. They say war is good for business. They say peak oil is a hoax. They say eating healthy is a fad. They say let the "fags" and "niggers" die of aids. They say give me my private planes and gas-dependent trucks. They say uncontroled population growth is a good thing. ... (cont)

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - Based on decades of my personal observation, and listening to the observations of other intelligentsia (such as the distinguished men and women of the Singularity project), it is an absolute fact that the human race is not even close to ready for AI, not to mention true synthetic life. Alas, it is a great likelihood that within the next 50 years we're going to see a lot of new tech we aren't ready for. May the gods have mercy on us, fore we may not have it upon ourselves.

vclxrr Says:

Apr 20, 2012 - We are at a very precarious time in our history. If you want to do something positive about all the doom and gloom then do this: Work toward the evolution of our species and our civilization. Work toward your own personal evolution as a person first, then help others work toward theirs more through your right actions than your words. If your actions can carry the weight of your words (beliefs), your efforts may well succeed in bearing the weight of the world.Good fortune to each of us.

freedfighter96 Says:

May 22, 2012 - There needs to be a database, where everyone around the world helps improve an AI. It will become a lot smarter that way.