Keith Henson recently drew my attention to this 210 page report by Eric Drexler:
* https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/reframing/ Title is: "Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence" Drexler argues against the "AGI" terminology, promoting his own "Comprehensive AI Services" (CAIS) terminology in its place. This is part of the "Reframing" in the title and there's a lot more of it in the paper. Drexler objects to the "agentification" intelligent systems - among other things. I'm sometimes a bit exasperated too by some of the terminology in the field - but Drexler's report comes across as a bit of a mixture of sour grapes and "not invented here" syndrome to me. Anyone else care to dive in and see if they can find things worthwhile? Drexler is smart and has an interesting track record. Drexler says he was funded by the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), the European Research Council, the Alexander Tamas Programme on AI Safety, and supported by the Future of Humanity Institute. These are mostly folk who like to warn everyone about the coming apocalypse at the hands of intelligent machines. Drexler seems like an odd pairing with them. He has some history with this sort of thing - where some people feared that self-reproducing "grey goo" would eat the biosphere. Anyway, this seems like a PR win for them: they can now cite Drexler as celebrity who is taking them seriously. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T068283ee543da084-M97715a0f5f54ab968652f4ca Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
