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…ms would be better directed at its overweening legal powers. The other focus of much tech prophecy today is artificial intelligence, whether in the original sci-fi dystopia of computers running amok and enslaving us in an unstoppable quest for domination, or the newer version in...

…n the literature previously, including the work of others reviewed in Chapter 4. It covers all the key aspects of human intelligence, and explains how they interoperate and how they can be implemented in digital computer software. Part 1 of this work outlines CogPrime at a high l...

… he later supplied to the Guardian, he had become deeply concerned about the immoral way in which the CIA conducted its intelligence operations in Switzerland. "Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the wo...

Defining Intelligence 157 guess that she doesn’t think about causation because no one ever tried to get her to do so. So she may very well be smart but she sounds stupid because she seems to be unaware of her own causal reasoning and is not very good at it. Being good at underst...

…ransfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him asy- lum, making it unlikely that...

5.3 An Architecture Diagram for Human-Like General Intelligence 103 concreteness, but of course the architecture is intended to be extended more broadly. In the hierarchy corresponding to an arm, for example, the lowest level would contain control patterns corresponding to indiv...

…s to these journalists concerned the NSA’s overseas sources and method, nine identified overseas locations of the NSA’s intelligence bases, 25 of them revealed the identities of foreign officials of interest to US intelligence agencies, 14 of them disclosed information about Inte...

…uding Appel- baum, Assange, Binney, and the former NSA employee Thomas Drake, could attract interest by U.S. or foreign intelligence services. Snowden asked Poitras to take out a new enciphering key to use exclusively for her liaison with him. It provided them both with an extra...

174 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World The Second Brain . The gastrointestinal neural net contains millions of neurons and is capable of operating inde- pendently of the brain. It modulates stress response and other aspects of emotion and motivation based on exp...

… the theft of state secrets in the first week of June. The FBI is in charge of criminal investigations of civilian U.S. intelligence workers, even if the alleged crime occurs on an NSA base. The FBI immediately dispatched a task force of agents to investigate a poten- tial espion...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION Stephen Wolfram Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well...

…erstood as being performed by systems using exclusively non-symbolic processes.... Al systems that achieve human-level intelligence will involve a combination of symbolic and non-symbolic processing.” A few of the more important hybrid cognitive architectures are: ¢ CLARION [S...

…nk about when exploring the relation between AI and art. So, what do contemporary artists have to say about artificial intelligence? Artificial Stupidity Hito Steyerl, an artist who works with documentary and experimental film, considers two key aspects that we should keep in...

…ay well cause problems for humans, but, by definition, the machine will not recognize those problems as problematic. e Intelligence is multidimensional, “so ‘smarter than humans’ is a meaningless concept.”® It is a staple of modern psychology that IQ doesn’t do justice to the fu...

…computer in the last microsecond. The problem of abstract AI is similar to the problem of recognizing extraterrestrial intelligence: How do you determine whether or not it has a purpose? This is a question I don’t consider answered. We’ll say things like, “Well, AI will be intel...