All of the AIs would be connected to each other virtually 24 hours a day. In some sense they would be separate, but in another sense they would be whole. You would be dealing with a world mind.
Predictor: Epstein, Robert
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Charles Platt covers the field of artificial intelligence, interviewing Robert Epstein, founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, who explains that truly intelligent agents would probably mutate and replicate themselves. Platt writes: ”Of course, right now [artificially intelligent agents of our future are] science fiction – but a type Epstein says he has never seen in print. ‘All the novels I’ve seen about AI have missed something – the Net. You add that to AI, and you have a fundamentally different world. All of the AIs would be connected to each other virtually 24 hours a day. In some sense they would be separate, but in another sense they would be whole. You would be dealing with a world mind.’ And it doesn’t bother him that this could be dangerous? ‘Some people find danger in things they don’t understand. I just find a challenge.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: What’s it Mean to Be Human, Anyway? Charles Platt Reports on the Latest Battle to Determine the Most Human Computer, Even as He Worries That He May be the Least Human Human
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.04/turing_pr.html
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