Really powerful optimization process

The term artificial intelligence can have anthropomorphic connotations. In some contexts, it might be useful to speak of a really powerful optimization process rather than a superintelligence. An AI that was nonanthropomorphic and nonsentient could theoretically still be a very powerful device that could drastically affect the future in precise ways.

Blog posts

• Dreams of Friendliness
• Aiming at the Target
• Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization
• Nonsentient Optimizers
• The Design Space of Minds-in-General

External links

• Creature or Technology by Steven Kaas
• The Stamp Collecting Device by Nick Hay

See also

• Optimization process, configuration space
• Artificial general intelligence, singleton
• Friendly Artificial Intelligence
• Anthropomorphism, alien values
• Evolution as alien god
• Complexity of value