Continuations

Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be the last post for a while about matters related to intelligence following my posts on the problems of sample correlation under fat tails and on dynamic versus static models. Now might be a good time to state that I firmly believe we should be researching human intelligence including its genetic component. This should not be off limits to science, especially at a time when we are actively building artificial intelligence and making major progress in neuros...

I don’t (yet) worry about a Terminator or Matrix like scenario where machines take over the world and subjugate humans. But it is useful to remind oneself of the rate of progress that has been taking place. I started programming computers in my early teens which is now almost 35 years ago. During that the first 25 of those years progress towards any kind of artificial intelligence was painfully slow. For instance, as late as 2004 when DARPA ran the first Grand Challenge it looked like we were...