Explore the fascinating world of intelligent systems in this 33-minute panel discussion from the InterPlanetary Festival 2018. Delve into the nature of intelligence across species, from ant colonies to humans to artificial intelligence. Examine how culture enables individual and collective intelligence, and debate the role of technology in transmitting knowledge. Investigate machine learning, robotics, and AI definitions while considering both techno-optimism and potential pitfalls. Discuss the ethics of machine translation, empathy for synthetic characters, and the evolution of culture. Analyze concepts like the Flynn effect and shared intelligence in social networks. Gain insights from experts on the future of education, the importance of mentorship, and the species that best exemplifies evolutionary intelligence.
Overview
Syllabus
Krakauer introduces topic of intelligence at the individual level made possible by culture, the nature of collective intelligence, and A.I.
first question What makes intelligence in any species possible? What other kinds of intelligence is out there?
Is technology, computation, gaming, and education the cumulative transmission for the best of our culture? If we’re going to be sending education out into space what form of education are we going to be transmitting?
Creating next generations of systems that look like they do in the real world videos and affinity groups so they can be improved.
Becoming intelligent by machine instruction rather than human instruction.
Things that are particular to human bonds and how they receive information.
The importance of having a caring mentor.
Having virtual coaching agents vs. the human bond.
Successful Ideas of deep learning and reinforcement schemes.
How machine learning systems work.
Different kinds of robotics represented in Jonah Nolan’s work.
Definitions of A.I.
Euphoric techno-optimism vs. fear that technology will inherit all of our human problems.
Designing agents that can inhabit the very best in human behavior
Various kinds of intelligence including animals that can carry the range of human emotions
Collective intelligence of animals and humans such as cumulative culture
Dark side of collective intelligence in the new tech world such as chat bots
Bias and algorithms
Field of machine translation which doesn’t preserve gender biases of source language.
The ethics of machine translation.
Exploring the hybrid domain and whether or machines have to be human for us to empathize.
Caring about synthetic characters in games
Finding empathy for forms of artificial intelligence such as robots, artificial wisdom and artificial sanity.
Is the world very unintelligent right now and why?
How culture evolves by adapting to people’s minds.
Gender neutral language
Flynn effect is an expression of our culture since it means that large scale intelligence tests have to renormalize every 10 years.
How intelligence is a shared phenomenon and the ethics of how it relates to social networking.
The one species that best represents the intelligence of evolution.
Taught by
Santa Fe Institute
