“Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Yet despite the most powerful technologies we have today, all life forms we know of remain fundamentally limited by their biological hardware.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Elon Musk argued that what we need right now from governments isn’t oversight but insight: specifically, technically capable people in government positions… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The fear of machines turning evil is another red herring. The real worry isn’t malevolence, but competence. A superintelligent AI is by… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“My personal analysis is that the media have made the AI-safety debate seem more controversial than it really is. After all, fear… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the best experts for performing such diagnosis may soon be AI systems, given the rapid progress in computer vision and deep… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“When you have the world’s first superintelligent AI working for you, you’re better off investing in your own companies than in those… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In summary, most scientists and sci-fi authors considering cosmic settlement have in my opinion been overly pessimistic in ignoring the possibility of… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The robot misconception is related to the myth that machines can’t control humans. Intelligence enables control: humans control tigers not because we’re… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The term “AGI” was popularized by the AI researchers Shane Legg, Mark Gubrud and Ben Goertzel to more specifically mean human-level artificial… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“My personal analysis is that the media have made the AI-safety debate seem more controversial than it really is. After all, fear sells, and… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is like a… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve written for… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it subjectively feels… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning (the study… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image