Apocalyptic AI {ReadingNotes}

Apocalyptic AI, Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality by Robert Geraci - ISBN 0195393023 - Oxford University Press 2010

Motivation

Considering AI as the most radical potential change during my lifetime and remembering a discussion with Pascaline between some description of the consequence of the apparition of "true" AI and historically considered religious ideas.

Pre-reading model

List the main decisions that should be impacted by reading the book in order to estimate the Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#InformationActionRatio and facilitate rule design as suggested after finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice.

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• Chapter 1: Apocalyptic AI
  • historical depiction of CMU robotics lab
    • mention that most robotics researcher hardly discuss the topic of the technological singularity but rather focus on their own area
      • probably giving an impression of extreme slowlyness rather than accelerated pace
  • mention of DeGaris
  • mention of the judaic myth of the golem
    • root often expressed in AI research
• Chapter 2: Laboratory Apocalypse
• Chapter 3: Transcending Reality
• Chapter 4: "Immaterial" Impact of the Apoclaypse
• Chapter 5: Integrations of Religion, Science, and Technology

See also

• ProgrammingForPeace
• Beliefs#B7 aka There is no peaceful ecosystem
  • with its implications, see eventually De Garis
• Ethics#Robotics
• http://fabien.benetou.fr/Cookbook/Electronics#Robotics
• http://quiz.thefullwiki.org/ on the book itself, key topics and the authors
• reviews
  • Apocalyptic AI - book presentation and discussion in Second Life by Giulio Prisco, 2010
  • Book Review - Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality by Giulio Prisco, 2010
    • mention of SecondLife users considering uploading in their favorite virtual world
  • Review: Apocalyptic AI by Robert M. Geraci by R. Steven Rainwater, robots.net 2011
    • mention of WoW players considering uploading in their favorite MMORPG
      • as for SL, this could simply be because those are entertainment platforms, designed to be pleasing, in which no chores must be done and when unplugging when one is bored or tired is possible
        • see PracticalMindUploadingLimits
• consider a set of rules
  • inspired by finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice and wondering how I could apply it

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

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