Links
- Bletchley Park
- Bombe
- Enigma Machine
- Alan Turing
- I J Good
- Exponential Growth of Computing
- Million Dollar Microsecond
- The Golden Rule
Quotes
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make”…
-Good in “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” from “Our Final Invention” by James Barrat
“The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultraintelligent machine”
-Good in “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” from “Our Final Invention” by James Barrat
“Keeping an ultraintelligent machine under control isn’t a given” … “the machine will have to tell us itself.”
-James Barrat in “Our Final Invention”
“Such machines … could even make useful political and economic suggestions; and they would need to do so in order to compensate for the problems created by their own existence.”
-Good in “The Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence” from “Our Final Invention” by James Barrat
“[Good] thinks that, because of international competition, we cannot prevent the machines from taking over.
-James Barrat in “Our Final Invention”
“‘survival’ should be replaced by ‘extinction.’”
-James Barrat in “Our Final Invention”
“But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. Even if all the governments of the world were to understand the “threat” and be in deadly fear of it, progress toward the goal would continue. In fact, the competitive advantage—economic, military, even artistic—of every advance in automation is so compelling that passing laws, or having customs, that forbid such things merely assures that someone else will.
—Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity” from “Our Final Invention” by James Barrat
“Good has captured the essence of the runaway, but does not pursue its most disturbing consequences. Any intelligent machine of the sort he describes would not be humankind’s “tool”—any more than humans are the tools of rabbits or robins or chimpanzees.”
-James Barrat in “Our Final Invention”