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EFTA01175884 | EFTA01175897 4.5 Tightly link AG! with the Global Brain Some futurist thinkers, such as Francis Heylighen, believe that engineering AGI systems is at best a peripheral endeavor in the development of novel intelligence on Earth, because the real story is the developing Global Brain (Heylighen 2007; Goertzel 2001): the composite. self-organizing information system comprising humans, computers, data stores, the Internet, mobile phones and other communication systems. Our own views are less dismissive of AGI — we believe that AGI systems will display capabilities fundamentally different from the Global Brain, and that ultimately (unless such development is restricted) self-improving AGI systems will develop intelligence vastly greater than any system possessing humans as a significant component. However, we do respect the power of the Global Brain, and suspect that the early stages of development for an AGI system may go quite differently if it is tightly connected to the Global Brain, via making rich and diverse use of Internet information resources and communication with a diverse section of humanity. The Internet component of the Global Brain allows us to access almost any piece of information, but we don't have it contextually integrated with our experience, which might be considered the difference between the-knowing a fact and understanding it=s meaning. Despite our impressive capacity to generate relationships and perform this integration, we arc confined to the neural capacity of our brains and the firing speeds of our neurons. The drop in conceptual bandwidth going-from brain tobetween-keyboard and mouse, or even to human face-to-face communication, reduces our effective ability to reason using knowledge outside of our brain. Despite the difference in memorization and integrated knowledge - t. Thethere is great potential for Global Brain integration to bring intelligence enhancement to AGIs . The ability to invoke web searches across documents and databases can greatly enhance the perceived cognitive ability of the AGI, as well as the capability to consult specialized databases like Geographic Information Systems and other specialized services via its their-web API. Gocnzel (2008) reviews the potential for embodied language learning achievable via using AGIs to power non-player characters in widely-accessible virtual worlds or massively multiplayer online games. Work by Orkin and Roy (2010) provides is-one example.. Ilere, the where the actions of interacting humans are used to record social behavior and language. as -from-human players interacting with one another within the confines of a restaurant, with the hope that it will provide a contextual grounding to language use. There is another powerful potential benefit from the Internet for the development of ethical AGI which has two aspects: 1. In a manner analogous to language learning, an AGI system may receive ethical training from a wide variety of humans in parallel, e.g. via controlling characters in wide-access virtual worlds, and gaining-feedback and guidance regarding the ethics of their behaviors . This could also be weighted by the perceived social acceptance of that character by other human controlled characters. Of course, measuring such a trait is not trivial, but heuristics such as how often others initiate follow-up interactions with a human character, or the frequency that others facilitate the AGI reaching its goals, may be starting points. 2. Internet-based information systems (such as. but not limited to, social media and Wwikipedia) may be used to explicitly gather a consensus regarding human values and goals, which may then be appropriately utilized as input for an AGI system's top-level goals. Commented [RKB22]: This long semergc wru a bit confuting. IN sun not quite sure what ix being dexeribed. hlaybe it molt some ra ve wart bat haw a thick abaut whether my rewording camas the meaning, Russell Blackford 2012.01.01 13:01:00 The second point begins to make abstract-sounding notions like Coherent Extrapolated Volition and Coherent Aggregated Volition, mentioned above, seem more practical and concrete. Gathering information about individuals' values via brain imaging, if such a technology becomes available, is an 14 EFTA01175897 Epstein Web iOS app on the App Store.
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