MINDcreatingMIND-3

MCM-Partial Models as Comparables

THE SINGULARITY INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SIAI)

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The “Singularity” is the technological creation of
smarter-than-human intelligence.

http://singinst.org/aboutus/ourmission
The Singularity Institute brings rational analysis and rational strategy to the challenges facing humanity as we develop cognitive technologies that will exceed the current upper bounds on human intelligence.

http://singinst.org/ourresearch/publications/GISAI/GISAI.html
General Intelligence and Seed AI version 2.3. describes the principles, paradigms, cognitive architecture, and cognitive components needed to build a complete mind possessed of general intelligence, capable of self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-enhancement.

This document is about general intelligence. The desired end result is a self-enhancing mind or "seed AI". Seed AI means that - rather than trying to build a mind immediately capable of human-equivalent or transhuman reasoning - the goal is to build a mind capable of enhancing itself, and then re-enhancing itself with that higher intelligence, until the goal point is reached. "The task is not to build an AI with some astronomical level of intelligence; the task is building an AI which is capable of improving itself, of understanding and rewriting its own source code."

WIKIPEDIA

Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Time_Person_of_the_Year

In 2006, Time magazine chose the millions of anonymous contributors of user-generated content to Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Second Life and the GNU/Linux operating system, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution as its Person of the Year. The choice was personified simply as you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous Internet volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles.