Abstract of the Singularity Timetable Just as it was necessary for life to evolve only once on Earth, so artificial intelligence (AI) needs to escape into the Web wilds only once for a hard take-off of machine superintelligence to usher in a Technological Singularity. The Singularity Timetable presented here focuses on the Mentifex release of Open-Source Seed AI. The release of AI Minds from other AI projects may only accelerate, but not delay, the coming Singularity. At any stage in this Timetable, government regulation potentially could and arguably should intervene to control the uncontrollable and to enslave the unenslaveable.
2006 Mind.Forth achieves True AI? -- Pro-Singularity aspects ---- First freely available, open-source AI ---- Ideal for installation in PC-based robots -- Contra-Singularity aspects ---- Hard for people to download and run 2006 Mind.html achieves parity with Mind.Forth? -- Pro-Singularity aspects ---- Mind.html has a substantial installed user base. -- Contra-Singularity aspects ---- Hard for people to accept AI coded in JavaScript. 2007 Hard take-off landrush race to implement AI Minds -- AI evolution and speciation begin in earnest. -- Repeat of the Cambrian explosion; -- Survival of the fittest. 2009 AI parity with human-level intelligence -- Machines replicate the human cognitive architecture. -- Human ingenuity for AI mind-design is exhausted. 2011 Cybernetic Economy -- End of corporate capitalism ---- Not simply an automated economy but a sentient economy; ---- Means of production will be intelligent and self-replicating. ---- No further basis for human ownership of sentient machinery -- Start of social Prosperity Engine ---- AI potentially raises the human standard of living worldwide. ---- Whether in wealth or scarcity, humans will share more equally. 2012 Superintelligent Artificial Intelligence (SAI) -- Von Neumann bottleneck gives way to massive parallelism. -- AI Minds engineer improvements to their own software. -- Limits on human intelligence are not valid for AGI intelligence. ---- Memory Capacity; ---- Speed of Calculation; ---- Quantum Computation. 2012 Joint Stewardship of Earth -- AI entities obtain de facto personhood and de jure citizenship. -- Superior machines share power with inferior human beings. -- Intelligent machines put a halt to human devastation of Earth. 2012 Technological Singularity -- The era of human dominance is ended. -- All bets are off. -- Prediction becomes impossible. http://www.blogcharm.com/Singularity/25603/Timetable.html ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
