By Katja Grace, 18 January 2015 Here is a superficially plausible argument: the brains of the slowest humans are almost identical to those of the smartest humans. And thus—in the great space of possible intelligence—the 'human-level' band must be very narrow. Since all humans are basically identical in design—since you can move from the least intelligent human to the sharpest human with imperceptible changes—then artificial intelligence development will probably cross this band of human capability in a blink. It won't stop on the way to spend years being employable but cognitively limited, or proficient but not promotion material. It will be superhuman before you notice it's nearly human. And from our anthropomorphic viewpoint, from which the hop separating
Making or breaking a thinking machine
Making or breaking a thinking machine
Making or breaking a thinking machine
By Katja Grace, 18 January 2015 Here is a superficially plausible argument: the brains of the slowest humans are almost identical to those of the smartest humans. And thus—in the great space of possible intelligence—the 'human-level' band must be very narrow. Since all humans are basically identical in design—since you can move from the least intelligent human to the sharpest human with imperceptible changes—then artificial intelligence development will probably cross this band of human capability in a blink. It won't stop on the way to spend years being employable but cognitively limited, or proficient but not promotion material. It will be superhuman before you notice it's nearly human. And from our anthropomorphic viewpoint, from which the hop separating