Safely Crowd-Sourcing Critical Mass for a Self-improving Human-Level Learner/"Seed AI" [chapter]

Mark R. Waser
2013 Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing  
Artificial Intelligence (AI), the "science and engineering of intelligent machines", still has yet to create even a simple "Advice Taker" (McCarthy 1959) . We argue that this is primarily because more AI researchers are focused on problem-solving or rigorous analyses of intelligence rather than creating a "self" that can "learn" to be intelligent and secondarily due to the excessive amount of time that is spent reinventing the wheel. We propose a plan to architect and implement the hypothesis
more » ... amsonovich 2011) that there is a reasonably achievable minimal set of initial cognitive and learning characteristics (called critical mass) such that a learner starting anywhere above the critical knowledge will acquire the vital knowledge that a typical human learner would be able to acquire. We believe that a moral, self-improving learner ("seed AI") can be created today via a safe "sousveillance" crowd-sourcing process and propose a plan by which this can be done.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34274-5_58 fatcat:aqewc4r2v5hwrhyzwcqtcy42a4