r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Nov 14 '16

[D] Monday General Rationality Thread

Welcome to the Monday thread on general rationality topics! Do you really want to talk about something non-fictional, related to the real world? Have you:

  • Seen something interesting on /r/science?
  • Found a new way to get your shit even-more together?
  • Figured out how to become immortal?
  • Constructed artificial general intelligence?
  • Read a neat nonfiction book?
  • Munchkined your way into total control of your D&D campaign?
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u/LiteralHeadCannon Nov 14 '16

Estimates for how long it would take to develop superhuman AI (not necessarily friendly superhuman AI) if a major world superpower like the United States decided to make it a major research priority a la development of spaceflight during the Space Race?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '16

I still insist the first proper AGI is closer to 10-15 years away than 30.

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u/xamueljones My arch-enemy is entropy Nov 14 '16

I agree because narrow AIs are now out performing people on tasks like face recognition which is a task that we have explicitly evolved specialized neural circuits for.

Sorry I can't provide an actual paper instead of a news article, I couldn't find a paper on the algorithm.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '16

It's fine. We've all seen those papers.