PSYC 532 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Steven Pinker, Diminishing Returns, Elon Musk

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 532
• Professor: Stevan Harnad

Document Summary

Psyc 532: lecture 23 new trends in cognitive science. Hypothetical event related to the development of artificial general intelligence. Could result in an intelligence explosion where machines could design successive generations of more powerful machines, which could get out of human"s control. Beyond that point event become unpredictable and even unfathomable via human intelligence. The rules of the game are simple but the rules of how to play the game are extremely complex. Go players seem to play with intuition and can"t really explain what they are doing enough to write algorythms of formal rules. Convergence of disciplines created this idea slide 3. Human intellect has grown over the course of evolution, but slowly (green curve) Machine intelligence got a late start, but very rapid increase in intellectual power. There will come a point at which machine intelligence could surpass human intelligence, that point is called the singularity.