Basic Terms

Question 1

Artificial intelligence ( AI )

Answer 1

Non-biological intelligence.

Specific intelligence on a target topic

Question 2

Artificial General Intelligence ( AGI )

Answer 2

Broad based Intelligence about all sorts of things and the ability to accomplish virtually any goal, including learning…

Question 3

Life 1.0

Answer 3

Simple, Biological Evolution

Can it survive and replicate? Unable to redesign either its hardware or its software during its lifetime. Both are determined by its DNA and change only through evolution over many generations…

Question 4

Life 2.0

Answer 4

Cultural Evolution: Can it Design it’s Software? Yes, humans can learn complex new skills like languages, sports and professions,and can fundamentally update their worldview and goals.

Life 2.0 can adapt almost instantly via a software update yet we are fundamentally limited by our biological hardware.

Question 5

Life 3.0

Answer 5

Technological evolution: can it design its own software and hardware? This life form can dramatically redesign its own software as well as its hardware, rather than having to wait for it to gradually evolve over generations.

Life 3.0 is the master of its own destiny, free from evolutionary shackles. Today’s humans are like 2.1 because we can perform minor hardware upgrades like implanting artificial teeth, knees and pacemakers…

Question 6

Digital Utopians

Answer 6

Larry Page ( Google )

Question 7

Techno-skeptics

Answer 7

They think that building superhuman AGI is so hard that it won’t happen doe hundreds of years and view it as silly to worry about it now.
Andrew Ng, from Baidu
Rodney Brooks, Roomba, Baxter industrial

Question 8

Beneficial AI Movement

Answer 8

Human Level AGI this century is a real possibility….but a good outcome is not guaranteed.
Stuart Russell
Future of Life Institute
Max Tegmark

Question 9

Singularity

Answer 9

Intelligence Explosion

Vernor Vinge

Question 10

Life

Answer 10

A process that can retain its complexity and replicate.

Question 11

Intelligence

Answer 11

Ability to accomplish complex goals

Question 12

General Intelligence

Answer 12

Ability to accomplish virtually any goal, including learning.

Question 13

Universal Intelligence

Answer 13

Ability to acquire general intelligence given access to data and resources.

Question 14

Civilization

Answer 14

An interacting group of intelligent life forms.

Question 15

Qualia

Answer 15

Individual instances of subjective experience.

Question 16

Teleology

Answer 16

Explanation of things in terms of their goals or purposes rather than their causes.

Question 17

Intelligence Explosion

Answer 17

Recursive self-improvement rapidly leading to super intelligence