AI Artificial Intelligence

and the Singularity

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology with a mind of its own. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Deliberative General Intelligence (DGI) are just some of the terms used to describe a thinking machine. Ben Goertzel (Novamente, AGIRI) defines intelligence as the ability to accomplish complex objectives in a complex environment. What then would "general intelligence" be? Many suppose that humans have general intelligence. If this is true then general intelligence could be defined as the ability to accomplish our goals in our environment. Or would a truly "general intelligence" have the capability to accomplish all achievable goals in all conceivable environments? Are AGI researchers trying to create GOD or just super-human artificial intelligence? Is there a difference? And what would it mean to the Singularity?

When computer programs get smart enough to be computer programmers then a feedback loop of recursive self-improvement leads directly to the Singularity.

Three Approaches to AI. By Mike Deering.
Can we build a mind in a computer? Can we write a computer program that thinks the way we do, or better?

Artificial Intelligence: How We could Create It. By Martin Sondergaard.
A.I. experts may be unable to create an A.I. alone.  But they may get significant help from other sciences.

Uploading. By Mike Deering.
Uploading is the process of changing the material substrate of your mind from the biological neuron based architecture to a computer transistor based architecture.