INQ120B
My Robot, My Frenemy

Activity 33

Final Invention - The Singularity

  1. Robot of the Day: Get Ready for Hybrid Thinking
  2. Summary: Our Final Invention
    1. Chapter 10: The Singularitarian
    2. Chapter 8: A Hard Takeoff
    3. Chapter 9: The Last Complication
  3. Discussion: Our Final Invention
    1. Is it better to develop AGI sooner?
    2. What would happen if we created AI next year?
    3. What would happen if we created AI after developing nanotechnology?
    4. Is there a moral imperative to develop AI?
    5. Do economics limit the potential to develop AGI?
    6. Does technology limit the potential to develop AGI?
    7. Will we be able simulate a human brain?
    8. Is a simulated brain intellegent?
    9. Can technology do anything that is physicaly possible?
    10. If our brains are physical, does that mean technology can do what our brains do?
    11. If technology can do anything we can do better, does that mean it will be able to argue with us about its intellegence?
    12. What is Moravec’s paradox?
    13. What is the evolutionary explanation of Moravec’s paradox?
    14. What does that imply about AGI?
    15. Will we merge with our smart phones?
    16. Will we be able to compete with AGI if humans are augmented?
  4. Project