This post makes a great deal of assumptions without justifying them. Extra details/assumptions make for good stories and even makes them sound more plausible, but every detail you add actually makes your story less plausible. I would suggest that you go through your post and remove as many Burdensome Details as possible, then spend some time nailing down the chain of logic you have left.
Also I think you may be falling prey to anthropomorphic bias. You seem to be assuming that modelling an AI on the human brain is the best approach, without stating any real justification for this. I would encourage you to read Artificial General Intelligence and the Human Mental Model (Yampolskiy and Fox, forthcoming).
I’m assuming that it’s the best approach in that the other possible approaches result in an alien entity that cannot be safely used. I’m also assuming the brain is too complex for a cluster of human beings to understand and copy, and that the complexity is higher than any evolutionary algorithm that could run on practical computers could create. (obviously, evolutionary algorithms did built the brain, but it took millions of years)
In no shape or form do I think that the human mind is actually “better”, I’m sure optimized entities could be orders of magnitude better...at least in terms of power efficiency or memory requirements....
Here is my initial reaction.
This post makes a great deal of assumptions without justifying them. Extra details/assumptions make for good stories and even makes them sound more plausible, but every detail you add actually makes your story less plausible. I would suggest that you go through your post and remove as many Burdensome Details as possible, then spend some time nailing down the chain of logic you have left.
Also I think you may be falling prey to anthropomorphic bias. You seem to be assuming that modelling an AI on the human brain is the best approach, without stating any real justification for this. I would encourage you to read Artificial General Intelligence and the Human Mental Model (Yampolskiy and Fox, forthcoming).
I’m assuming that it’s the best approach in that the other possible approaches result in an alien entity that cannot be safely used. I’m also assuming the brain is too complex for a cluster of human beings to understand and copy, and that the complexity is higher than any evolutionary algorithm that could run on practical computers could create. (obviously, evolutionary algorithms did built the brain, but it took millions of years)
In no shape or form do I think that the human mind is actually “better”, I’m sure optimized entities could be orders of magnitude better...at least in terms of power efficiency or memory requirements....