This book is about the creation of super-intelligent thinking machines. The first section presents the overall case that intelligent thinking machines are not only possible but inevitable. Then I present a model of capabilities that a system needs in order to appear intelligent, and the behaviours we can expect from a system built following that model. The details of the explanation are a bit more technical but I have endeavoured to include examples which will make the process clear.The final section extrapolates the behaviours that result from a system created along the lines of the model of Section II so we can reach conclusions about what such machines will be like and what we might do to coexist with them. It isn't critical to the thesis of this book that the model be correct in every detail. In fact, any goal-oriented learning system which interacts with our physical environment is likely to exhibit similar behaviour. What is the point of this book? - To show that computers more intelligent than humans are possible. - To explain why such computers are inevitable. - To argue that machine intelligence will be created sooner than most people think. - To demonstrate that, subsequently, vastly more powerful intelligence's will be created only a few decades later. - To conclude that such "genius" machines will lead to options and opportunities for how humans will coexist with (and prepare for) them.
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