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AI: the Ziggy Stardust Syndrome

#artificialintelligenceFeb-18-2018, 19:56:30 GMT

In his Wall Street Journal column this weekend, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers a fascinating theory as to why we haven't been able to find signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Maybe, he suggests, intelligent beings are fated to shrink as their intelligence expands. Once the singularity happens, AI implodes into invisibility. Wilczek notes that "effective computation must involve interactions and that the speed of light limits communication." To optimize its thinking, an AI would have no choice but to compress itself to minimize delays in the exchange of messages.

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