Born in Second Life
Posted by Jeriaska on June 7th, 2007
Imagine meeting someone in an MMO and finding out s/he was literally born and raised in Second Life. The concept is not all that implausible, if you’re talking about a future decade.
AI researchers at a Silicon Valley company called Novamente are currently at work programming and training artificial intelligence software for use in simulated environments like Second Life, designed to demonstrate multiple facets of humanlike conscious awareness. Last week, Dr. Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist and mathematician who founded the company, gave a videotaped Google TechTalk at the search engine magnate’s Northern California headquarters, in which he discussed Novamente’s goal of integrating “narrow” AI programs together to form lifelike “artificial general intelligence.”
The talk gets pretty technical, but gives a good sense of how human-equivalent computer intelligence is currently developing in theory and in practice. For even more future shock, check out Ben Goertzel’s “Ten Years to the Singularity.”
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