Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies · chapter 4 · id superintelligence-c4-04-an-ai-system-could-traverse-th

“An AI system could traverse the cognitive gap from human-level to superintelligent much faster than biological evolution traversed the gap from primate to human intelligence, because AI is not subject to biological constraints.”

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Human Evolution Timelinesource alive

The cognitive gap between the last common ancestor of chimps and humans emerged over approximately 6-7 million years of evolution.

Salimans et al. 2017, Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to RLsource alive

Gradient-based optimization is dramatically more efficient than evolutionary search for many problems, though evolution can compete in some narrow settings.

EA Forum: Critique of Superintelligence Part 1source alive

Evolution was not optimizing for intelligence -- it was optimizing for reproductive fitness. The analogy is misleading because the optimization target is different.

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