Amazing Progress in Artificial Intelligence – Ben Goertzel


Blockbuster Science! Its an awesome approach to incentivizing scientists – it’s great that people are applauding for stuff that really matters! People cheer at most ridiculous and inconsequential things – why not funnel this energy into science? Next step, create high production shorts for real world advances in science (with a tinge of flair) –…
More precisely, Deepmind’s Gemini AI achieved gold standard (it didn’t technically win) at the International Math Olympiad. AI has made significant gains in capability over the past few years. Could AI be a better moral reasoner than us, and how would we know? This is a genuinely important question that highlights a tension in how…
Hugo de Garis on AI, the story leading up to where we are now, and the possibilities for AI in the not too distant future. We have seen AI sprint past us in many cognitive domains, and in the coming decades we will likely see AI creep up on human level intelligence in other domains…
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
Amanda, a philosopher at Anthropic, in various interviews addresses AI behavior and character development, how models make ethical decisions, maintain psychological security, and whether AI models are good at moral decision making. In previous posts and talks, I’ve discussed whether AI can and should become more moral than humans – and noted that Deepmind co-founder…
The universe is made up of matter, energy and information, interacting with each other and producing new kinds of matter, energy, information and interaction. How? How did all this come out of a cloud of dust? In order to find explanations we first need much better descriptions of what needs to be explained. By Aaron…