cloud superintelligence
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My presentation from the Ars Electronica cloud intelligence symposium in September 2009. The core question is how online networks can become smart.TRANSCRIPT
Cloud superintelligence
Anders SandbergFuture of Humanity Institute
James Martin 21st Century School
Oxford University
Austria has around821,000,000 IQ points
Total work = individual work – communications losses
Cheap superintelligence
Sometimes simple tricks produce amazing results
Select best
Parallel trials (different agents)
Select best
Wikimagic
• Basic model: visitors to a page improve it if they think they can do better
Judge best
Evaluating complex results
Judge best
Multiple agents as units
Judge best
Feedback for further improvement
Select best
Scientific community
Evolutionary algorithm
Select best solution(s)
Variation
Information market
Price mechanism
Prices
Aggregated information
Why we need more people
• Why did the Tasmanians lose bone tools, fishing and warm weather clothing?
• Simple model– People imitate other people, innovate rarely– Number of technologies that can be retained
then depends on population size
Why blogs1 get smart
• Managing limited input channels• Model
– Agents read a limited number of information sources and have certain interests (many unique)
– Random agents post stories based on their interests– If one read agent has a piece of interesting news that source is
regarded as more useful by the agent– Agents write about the interesting news
with a certain probability, creatinginformation cascades
– Over time agents randomly shift to othersources if one proves useless
1: Or twitterers, journals, friends, etc…
Problem recogniser:Invoke suitable resource manager
Monitor/trouble-shooter
Resource manager: set up suitable problem solving structure
Superknowledge
• Often information can substitute for smarts
80 million tiny images
• http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/tinyimages/• Gather lots of example images, find nearest
neighbours of input image, deduce properties
Superorganisms and the posthuman realm