What is the nature of recursive self-improvement in the absence of a self to be improved? Will the pleasure-pain axis of carbon-based life be superseded by the formal "utility functions" of non-biological machines? An ecologically naturalistic account of intelligence will be constructed. Moore's Law and Kurzweil's "Law of Accelerating Returns" are reviewed. Good (1965), and computer scientist Vernor Vinge (1983) to their recent eruption into popular culture: "2045, The Year Man becomes Immortal" ( Time magazine, Feb. The history and multiple meanings of the terms " Singularity" and "Intelligence Explosion" will be charted from their origins in the work of Hungarian polymath John von Neumann (1950), the mathematician I.J. The structure of this essay will be as follows.
If the future lies in super-AGI, will these super-AGIs be sentient? Or is consciousness purely incidental to intelligence - a mere implementation detail of primordial organic minds?.If the future of life lies in post-biological superintelligence, may we anticipate any place for "uploads" - functioning whole-brain emulations of organic humans? Or will humans be superseded by some kind of recursively self-improving super-AGI (artificial general intelligence)?.Does the future of life in the universe lie in the biological descendants of Homo sapiens? Or in post-biological superintelligence - a transition known to believers as The Singularity?.Technological Singularities, Intelligence Explosions The Sentience Explosion: Technological Singularities, Intelligence ExplosionsĪnd The Future of Biological Sentience by David PearceĮxtended abstract of invited contribution to "Singularity Hypotheses" (Springer, 2013)
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