On the simulation (and energy costs) of human intelligence, the singularity and simulationism

Winfield, Alan F. T.

Abstract

For many the Holy Grail of robotics and AI is the creation of artificial persons: artefacts with equivalent general competencies as humans. Such artefacts would literally be simulations of humans. With the theme of simulation this essay reflects on both the simulation of intelligence and the associated energy costs across three broad and controversial topics: first, how to design (or evolve) human-equivalent AI, second, the prospects of an intelligence explosion once the first has been achieved, and third, simulationism - the idea that we are ourselves simulations in a simulated universe.

• Acceptance Date: Jan 26, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Apr 17, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 17, 2019
• Deposit Date: Apr 18, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 18, 2021
• Print ISSN: 2367-4512
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 397-407
• Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation book series
• Series Number: 28
• Book Title: From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_16
• Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI), artificial general intelligence (AGI), energy, simulation, the singularity, simulationism
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/848731
• Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_16
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_16
• Contract Date: Apr 18, 2019