Most intelligent

My most intelligent AIs appear to have been societies of specialist A.s.a. H. agents. ("Collective Intelligence") But I may not have explored a wide enough range of environments yet so this is a tentative assessment. Also, I do not assign any scalar "IQs" since I prefer vector measures of intelligence. 

More than one kind of AI

Most scientists currently recognize 15 to 20 different species of early humans. Similarly I expect there to be a number of different artificial intelligences* having different architectures. In view of specializations this may well prove desirable.  

* See, for starters, my blog of 16 September 2010.

GPU prices

 GPUs are way overpriced, especially Nvidia. Sure glad Asa can use different technologies.

Comment on OpenAI

 My big issue with OpenAI is that it's not open. Their software is not open source. This is not how good science is done. People need to be able to examine and comment on one another's work.* Perhaps the business men need to be kept away from the scientists and their work.** I have commented previously on chatgpt and the alignment issue.***

* Groups make better decisions than individuals do.

** And it would be important to know just which members of the staff did the actual science as opposed to who were administrative/management types. I get the feeling the presenters aren't always the developers. This happens less in an academic setting. Probably OpenAI should have been started as an institute at some university.

*** See, for example,  my blogs of 25 February 2023 and 10 August 2023.

Immortality

 Having exceeded my life expectancy it's natural to think about mortality.* I know of a number of possible ways in which some sort of immortality might be possible (pluralism again):

1. Uploading of one's mind to a computer.** Not available yet.

2. The block universe. "I'll always be alive in the year 2020." (One only needs the block universe model to be valid for the past. Any problem with quantum mechanics influencing the future*** is not an issue here. Once I'm dead my whole life is in the past only.) 

3. The conservation of quantum information. (If the real me is just information, e.g, "I think therefore I am.")

4. Recurrence. Under the right laws of nature if you wait long enough I'll be back.

5. Everett Quantum Mechanics. Any time I die a different copy of me survives. Like Schrodinger's cat. (There wouldn't have to be a single continuous "consciousness.")

6. "The Soul Hypothesis."**** Is the "real me" a wave function, or a quantum field, or ???

7. Metaphysical solipsism. Your mind is the only thing that exists, ever. You're around for just as long as the universe is.

8. If what we are is a network of ideas then recording and preserving those ideas.***** (Related to number 1 above but perhaps without an ongoing active element.)

9. Combinations of various of these.

But once again, extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence. It seems appropriate to publish this on Dia De Los Muertos.

* I've argued against the idea of immortality in my blog of 15 October 2010.

** I laugh at this idea when I think of some of my old computer programs that can not be run on any of the computers that I have today. (Think coding forms, punch cards, and magnetic tapes.) And hardware updates have sometimes forced me to make software changes.

*** For example, Sabine Hossenfelder, backreation.blogspot.com, 23 July 2022.

**** For example, Baker and Goetz, eds., Bloomsbury Pub., 2010.

***** Including "lifelogging."

Adding more senses again*

 A.s.a. H. decomposes sensory input into hierarchical sets of commonly recurring patterns. Some concepts (higher up in the hierarchy) involve A.s.a. learning nonlinear functions. With the addition of more sensors it is sometimes possible, instead, for A.s.a. to learn a simpler, possibly even linear, function.

* See, for example, my blog of 1 September 2022.