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Re80: Recap of Artificial Intelligence (Re6-Re9)

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A first pass at the phenomena of artifacts, machines and goals. Six questions about AI; artifacts as interfaces; intentions, purposes, goals; absorption and exsorption of goals; the transition from inanimate to animate; new goals coming out of machines; the totalitarian solution; artilect war'; living systems as like artifacts; insufficient warning; energy, autonomy, reproduction, communication, control;singularity'; deferred gratification; AI and its users; camouflage and new perceptions; prediction machines; `they' are the controllers; reality and fitness; the quantum chessboard.

Air date: Tuesday, 13th Dec. 2022, 10:00 PM Eastern/US.

If the phenomenon of artificial intelligence, according to Russell & Norvig (2020), is intelligent agents', and the phenomenon of strategic intelligence, according to Retraice (2022/12/12), isintelligence agents' (and perhaps `agencies' government and otherwise), then what to think about lifelike, strategically behaving artifacts--intelligent artifacts?

Re6: Interface^1

On what AI is or isn't, and whether it's between things. Six questions about what AI is; Who?; Where? metal, electricity, patterns; When? locations in time; How? and Why?; Which, a basis for the other questions; the ocean of things going on out there; Simon on artifacts as interfaces between inner and outer environments, given intentions and purposes; artifacts are everywhere; the many goals related to even a simple battery.

Re7: Artifactual Goals^2

On goals producing artifacts-producing-goals, and machines coming alive. Simon on goals linking inner and outer environments and being central to the description of artifacts; artifacts absorbing goals; the physical interpretation of goal'; artifacts causing goals; artifacts absorbing their own goals--goal absorption and exsorption in machines of moving parts; inter-artifact absorption (e.g. two abaci); the transition from inanimate things to animate things--AlphaZero, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems; new goals coming out of machines; goals moving amongst entities of all sorts; What would we do if we knew?; totalitarianism;artilect war'.

Re8: Strange Machines^3

A survey of the idea that technology is creatures. Artifacts with goals should not be called artifacts; Simon on living systems being like artifacts; organic evolution vs. Walter's tortoises; Butler recommends war to the death; Dyson agrees the entities are real; Wolfram created stunning cellular automata behavior; Yudkowsky says there will be no sufficient warning; I. J. Good says take scifi more seriously; definitions can be distractions; Russell and Norvig say the difference in technologies is autonomy; von Neumann's neutral definition, and Kurzweil's optimistic definition, of singularity'; the morality of machine takeover; S. Russell on the user's mind as environment; Dyson on reproduction, communication and control; Smallberg on energy sources; search andlooking for' things; Dietterich on reproduction and autonomy; What to do? Bostrom on deferred gratification; skyscrapers seem taller than they are.

Re9: They Can See You^4

On what is perceptible to AI, and AI controllers. AI and its users can see hidden patterns, including their extrapolation into the future and interpolation toward secrets; the next thing after rods and cones; camouflage lags behind new perceptions; prediction machines; whoever controls AI is the `they'; the Target debacle; accumulating capacities; reality and fitness; the chessboard is a quantum one; What's the work?

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References

Kissinger, H. A., Schmidt, E., & Huttenlocher, D. (2021). The Age of AI. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: 978-0316273800. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780316273800 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9780316273800 https://lccn.loc.gov/2021943914

Retraice (2020/10/25). Re6: Interface. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re6 Retrieved 26th Oct. 2020.

Retraice (2020/10/26). Re7: Artifactual Goals. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re7 Retrieved 27th Oct. 2020.

Retraice (2020/10/28). Re8: Strange Machines. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re8 Retrieved 29th Oct. 2020.

Retraice (2020/10/31). Re9: They Can See You. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re9 Retrieved 31st Oct. 2020.

Retraice (2022/12/12). Re79: Recap of Strategic Intelligence (Re1-Re5). retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re79 Retrieved 13th Dec. 2022.

Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson, 4th ed. ISBN: 978-0134610993. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0134610993 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0134610993 https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047498

Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial. MIT, 3rd ed. ISBN: 0262691914. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0262691914 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0262691914 https://lccn.loc.gov/96012633 Previous editions available at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=The%20sciences%20of%20the%20artificial

Footnotes

^1 Retraice (2020/10/25). ^2 Retraice (2020/10/26). Discussed during the livestream: Simon (1996) pp. 151-153 on the undue power of professional engineers in affecting social systems. ^3 Retraice (2020/10/28). ^4 Retraice (2020/10/31). On AI seeing things that we can't, see Kissinger et al. (2021) pp. 13-17.