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SINGULARITY SUMMIT
Recap: 11.04.2012
Categories Things are generally to a lot better
Steven Pinker Longevity Health in General Managing Data Flood AGI
Ray Kurzweil, Vernor Vinge Access to and owing own data
John Wilbanks Singularity
Improvments
Health Wealth including all levels Violence of all types way down Technology Much better narrow AI Longevity research
Vernor Vinge
Singularity from mulitple scenariosAGIIntelligence AmplificationDigital GaiaIntegration of human mentation
On uploadsMay simply be AGIs that are made to be
convinced they are humans
Peter Norvig His projections from 2007 were part wrong Hierarchical Knowledge / Concept abstraction
Automatic sellf learning recognizers Google’s Distributed Processing
Huge vision models Machine translation
Combining components at multiple levels over parallel text
Gives ability to guess reasonably an missing elements
Julia Galef Different aspects of mind
RationalMore primitive drives like status
Anecdotes have a lot of power for social creatures
Emotion moves us a lot Teaching Rationality
Supportive communityOvercoming biasesBelief rattling in mind
John Wilbanks
Medical data volume is increasing hugelyCan get own micro-arrays done, etc
Current medical record handling is closed and ancient methods
Health data is not like other data Law and health data Need to apply massive data mining privacy
Steve Pinker
We are living in the most peaceful era of our species’ existence
Types in decline:War HomicideSadistic Punishments and TortureDeath Penalty
PositivesRights recoginizedExpansion of “Us”
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Jaan Talinn
Hard takeoff could change the face of the universe
But how could we be in this position? Simulation Argument Anthropomorhic Notions Does the multiverse help?