Cloud Superintelligence

Cloud superintelligence
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
James Martin 21 st Century School
Oxford University

Austria has around 821,000,000 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 blogs 1 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, creating information cascades
Over time agents randomly shift to other sources 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

http://www.smartmobs.com	82
http://cartman.aec.at	10
http://www.slideshare.net	8
http://bagtheweb.com	7
http://davidhagar.blogspot.com	4
http://feeds2.feedburner.com	1
file://	1
http://jandwconsulting.com	1
http://74.125.87.132	1

Cloud Superintelligence

by Anders Sandberg on Sep 09, 2009

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