Superintelligence

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Superintelligence is a concept that describes an artificially enhanced human brain, a computer program or a device that is much smarter, more creative and wiser than any current or past existing human brain.^[1] The uniqueness of superintelligence involves a scenario where the superintelligence recursively enhances its own capability and intelligence to an unimaginable scale. Such an event has been termed a "singularity" by theorists.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the possible paths to superintelligence, and perhaps the most frequently discussed. Other possible paths to superintelligence would be through human genetic engineering or brain-computer interfacing.

See also

• Seed AI – a hypothesized type of strong artificial intelligence capable of recursive self-improvement
• Artificial intelligence
• Strong AI
• Clarke’s three laws
• Omega point
• I. J. Good
• Hans Moravec
• Max More
• Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
• Technological evolution
• Techno-utopianism
• Tipping point
• Transhumanism
• Hooloovoo - A fictional hyperintelligent shade of the colour blue in the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

External links

• How long to superintelligence? (1998), Philosophy, http://www.nickbostrom.com, retrieved 2008-03-23 
• Book by Minsky, Marvin The Society of Mind, March 15, 1988, ISBN 0671657135
• MIT article Examining the Society of Mind
• Estimated IQs of famous geniuses
• Genius Hall - information on geniuses through time
• Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (Pantheon, 2002), ISBN 0375420797
• KurzweilAI.net
• The Singularity Summit at Stanford
• Greenfield, Susan (2002). The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science). London, England: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 272 pages. ISBN 0141007206. 
• D. Lenat and R. V. Guha. (1990). Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-51752-3. 
• How to Build a Mind, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000, ISSN 0893-6080.
• Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2003.
• David Marr (neuroscientist), Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information (1980), ISBN 0716715678
• What is a Superintelligence?

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