Person of Interest
A professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute within the Oxford Martin School. Also, the main author of the reading.
Who is Nick Bostrom?
If X counts morally in its own right, which implies that it is permissible/impermissible to do things to it for its own sake, then X must possess this principle.
What is moral status?
The main author of the reading proposed this type of bias in 2002 to characterize the idea that "our intuitions favor the direction of overestimating the probability of those scenarios that make for a pleasant plot, since such scenarios will seem much more familiar and real."
What is good-story?
Most likely the most difficult kind of cognition to implement in an AI. Also the theme of this week's reading.
What is Ethics ?
This reigning world champion at chess lost their title after competing against an IBM supercomputer designed to play chess on February 1996.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
"If two beings have the same functionality and the same conscious experience, and differ only in the substrate of their implementation, then they have the same moral status."
What is Substrate Non-Discrimination?
A criteria that's linked to moral status that denotes the ability to feel sensation like pain and suffering
What is sentience?
Superintelligence status can be achieved by increasing this particular parameter in CPU/GPU.
What is processing speed?
A Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Also, the second author of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Who is Eliezer Yudkowsky?
"In cases where the duration of an experience is of basic normative significance, it is the experience's subjective duration that counts."
What is Subjective Rate of Time?
Encompasses the set of capacities associated with higher intelligence, such as self-awareness and being a reason-responsive agent.
What is sapience?
This IBM chess-playing supercomputer became the first machine to win the title of world champion at chess against a reigning human world champion on February 1996.
What is Deep Blue?
In this text, she proposed a definition for moral status in her book published in 2007.
Who is Frances Kamm?
This legal principle binds judges to follow past precedent whenever possible.
What is stare decisis?
Aptly named for the booming evolution it implies, this hypothesis was made by Irving John Good in 1965 stating that "an AI sufficiently intelligent to understand its own design could cyclically redesign itself or create a successor system more intelligent than the previous version."
What is intelligence explosion?
This AI model that uses natural language processing has gotten very popular in the last couple years and would help answer Jeopardy questions such as this one.
What is ChatGPT ?
This American computer scientist, author, inventor, stated in 2005 that "intelligence is inherently impossible to control.."
Who is Raymond Kurzweil?
"If two beings have the same functionality and the same conscious experience, and differ only in how they came into existence, then they have the same moral status."
What is Ontogeny Non-Discrimination?
This definition containing a negative connotation, refers to a mind that thinks like a human but much faster. (Vernor Steffen Vinge, 1993)
What is weak superintelligence?
This AI model, often compared to OpenAI's GPT-3, shares its name with a medieval poet and musician known for composing lyrical verses.
What is Bard?