Course Description

From DataMining

Contents 1 "Computers will be vastly smarter than you in your lifetime" 2 Forecasting and Exponential Growth 3 Five Paths to a Singularity 4 Arguments against the Singularity 5 Post-singularity

"Computers will be vastly smarter than you in your lifetime"

• Computers will soon match humans in compute power

• Computers and science improve exponentially

• Compute power and complexity of the human brain

• Aside: History of the Singularity

Forecasting and Exponential Growth

• Forecasting methodology and the learning curve
• History of Forecasting: Patterns of Success & Failure
• When will Moore's law end?

• History of Singularities: How did we get to be intelligent? - save for later?

Five Paths to a Singularity

• AI and Machine Learning
• Simulate Human Cognition
• Simulate Brains
• Simulate Evolution
• Intelligence Augmentation (IA)

Arguments against the Singularity

• Reductionism
• Lanier's One Half of a Manifesto
• Simulation as thought

Post-singularity

• Postsingularity
• Consciousness
• Are you a singulatarian?
  • questions and take-aways from the entire course

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