Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher.
Yudkowsky is one of the foremost experts on the technological singularity and the development of Friendly Artificial Intelligence. He is a full-time Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Yudkowsky is a Director and Research Fellow of the SIAI, and the author of the SIAI publications Levels of Organization in General Intelligence, General Intelligence and Seed AI, and Creating Friendly AI.
Research
Yudkowsky's primary research interest is the field of artificial general intelligence, specifically Friendly AI. Other prominent fields of interest include human rationality, evolutionary psychology, Bayes' theorem, cognitive science, information theory, and computer science.
Quotes
"A civilization with high technology is unstable; it ends when the species destroys itself or improves on itself."
"A future that contains smarter-than-human minds is genuinely different in a way that goes beyond the usual visions of a future filled with bigger and better gadgets."
"Combine faster intelligence, smarter intelligence, and recursively self-improving intelligence, and the result is an event so huge that there are no metaphors left."
"To build a real mind requires not just a "theory of intelligence", but - for example - a theory of memory, a theory of perceptual category formation, a theory of goal-oriented cognition, a theory of sensory modalities in general plus theories for any specific sensory modalities required, a theory of mental imagery, a theory of reflectivity, a theory of realtime skills, et cetera, and then some, plus a theory that explains how the pieces all fit together to produce something that is recognizably the thing we call "intelligence"."
See also
- Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Technological singularity
- Transhumanism
- Tyler Emerson
- Michael Anissimov
External links
- Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- The Low Beyond (Collected Works) (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky Q&A
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