Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
Tim Urban points out in his AI article that it might be dangerous to expect that the AI that we know now would still be the same AI we will have in the very near future <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-revolu...</a><p>&quot;So as AI zooms upward in intelligence toward us, we’ll see it as simply becoming smarter, for an animal. Then, when it hits the lowest capacity of humanity—Nick Bostrom uses the term “the village idiot”—we’ll be like, “Oh wow, it’s like a dumb human. Cute!” The only thing is, in the grand spectrum of intelligence, all humans, from the village idiot to Einstein, are within a very small range—so just after hitting village idiot level and being declared to be AGI, it’ll suddenly be smarter than Einstein and we won’t know what hit us:&quot;<p>Compare the images:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;Intelligence-600x472.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com&#x2F;wp-c...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;Intelligence2-1024x836.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com&#x2F;wp-c...</a>