” Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence – in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league. “
” By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. “
” We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word ‘intelligence,’ we think of Einstein instead of humans. “
” Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly – on a historical scale, that is – we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years. “
” I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. “
” I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man,’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. “
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