(…) it could interact with the physical environment by means of nanoscale manipulators, since limbs at such small scales could operate faster than macroscopic appendages.ĭef Collective superintelligence/Bostrom: A system composed of a large number of smaller intellects such that the system’s overall performance across many very general domains vastly outstrips that of any current cognitive system.Ĭollective intelligence excels at solving problems that can be readily broken into parts such that solutions to sub-problems can be pursued in parallel and verified independently.Ī system’s collective intelligence could be enhanced by expanding the number or the quality of its constituent intellects, or by improving the quality of their organization.Ī new conference format that lets scholars exchange information more effectively, or a new collaborative information-filtering algorithm that better predicted users’ ratings of books and movies, would clearly not on its own amount to anything approaching collective superintelligence.

(1) Def Speed superintelligence/Bostrom: Speed superintelligence: A system that can do all that a human intellect can do, but much faster.īecause of (…) time dilation of the material world, a speed superintelligence would prefer to work with digital objects. Networks/superintelligence: Improvements in networks and organizations might result in weakly superintelligent forms of collective intelligence in the long run but more likely, they will play an enabling role similar to that of biological cognitive enhancement, gradually increasing humanity’s effective ability to solve intellectual problems. They would, at best, result in relatively weak forms of superintelligence (…).īrain–computer interfaces/Bostrom: look unlikely as a source of superintelligence. Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence - Dictionary of Arguments I 61īiological enhancements: Compared with possible breakthroughs in machine intelligence, however, biological enhancements

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