https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7266
"Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but
in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of
the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we
could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no
one has done for AI what Russell Impagliazzo did for complexity theory in 1995,
when he defined the five worlds Algorithmica, Heuristica, Pessiland, Minicrypt,
and Cryptomania, corresponding to five possible resolutions of the P vs. NP
problem along with the central unsolved problems of cryptography.
In this blog post, we—Scott and Boaz—aim to remedy this gap. Specifically, we
consider 5 possible scenarios for how AI will evolve in the future.
(Incidentally, it was at a 2009 workshop devoted to Impagliazzo’s five worlds
co-organized by Boaz that Scott met his now wife, complexity theorist Dana
Moshkovitz. We hope civilization will continue for long enough that someone in
the future could meet their soulmate, or neuron-mate, at a future workshop
about our five worlds.)"
Via Wayne Radinsky.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
