AI and Human Immortality

Ben Goertzel

Mind and Pattern

Minds are systems that recognize and create patterns in the world, in themselves, and in each other

Narrow AI systems are highly restricted in the types of patterns they can recognize/create

Totally general intelligence is only possible given infinite computational/physical resources

Pragmatic Artificial-General-Intelligence Systems may possess the capacity to continually expand the scope of patterns they can deal with

Extending the Gene Ontologygo.biomind.com

Understanding the Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease

Understanding the Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease

Understanding the Differences Between Old and Young Brains

Information Extraction from Biomedical Text1. Input: Sentence from PubMed

abstract

“Thus, mutation of the c-kit gene may be a good prognostic marker of GISTs.”

2. Parse path from "c-kit" to "GISTs".

_subj-n(c-kit, gene)

of(mutation, gene)

_subj(may, mutation)

_to-do(may, be)

_obj(be, marker)

of(marker, GISTs)

3. Syntax-to-semantics mapping: example transformation rule…

Context PubMed

ForAll X

Implication

_subj(may,X)TruthValueOf(X,.7)

4. Output: Logical Relations Suitable for Reasoning m_4 = marker(mutation(gene_77), GISTs)<.7>

Inheritance gene_77 c-kit

Inheritance m_4 marker

Novamente Architecture:High-Level View

Architecture of a Novamente Lobe

MindAgents are based on

•Probabilistic Term Logic

•Evolutionary Procedure Learning

•Frequent Itemset Mining

•Stochastic Local Search

Example MindAgents:

•First-order probabilistic inference

•Procedure Learning

•Probabilistic Attention Allocation

•Procedure and Predicate Evaluation

•…

Stages of Cognitive Development

Infantile

• Instinct

• Imitation

• Word-Object Association

• Object Permanence

Pre-Operational

• Simple syntax

• Systematic word-object associations

• Single-parameter object classifications

Concrete Operational

• Conservation Laws

• Theory of Mind

• Complex object classifications

• Advanced syntax

Formal

• Abstract deductive reasoning

• Scientific testing of hypotheses

Novamente Project Goals

1. Artificial Child

2. Artificial Scientist, focused on Human biology Mathematics Artificial Intelligence Ethics

3. Self-Modifying, Ethical Artificial Scientist

4. Singularity!

Useful(?) Illusions

FREE WILLAre our ‘reasons’ for our actions causes, or just after-the-fact

rationalizations?

CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS“Was that really ‘me’ yesterday? 5 seconds ago? 30 years ago?”

SPECIALNESS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS Do we humans really have some ‘spark of awareness’ not

possessed by other pattern-systems, other decohered physical systems?

CreditsNovamente:

Cassio PennachinAri HeljakkaMoshe LooksAndre SennaIzabela GoertzelWelter SilvaMichael RossHugo PintoRodrigo BarraMatt Ikle’

Biomind:Cassio PennachinLucio CoelhoMurilo QueirozFrancisco ProsdocimiWelter SilvaFrancisco LoboKenji Shikida

BioLiterate: Cassio Pennachin Hugo Pinto Renato Dias Bruce Klein