There are at least 4 stages of intelligence levels that AI will have to get through to get to the take-over-the-world level. In Beyond AI I refered to them as hypohuman, diahuman, epihuman, and hyperhuman; but just for fun let's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk)From NanoWerk: Rice scientists argue nanotubes can be treated like polymersWade Adams, Matteo Pasquali, Micah Green and Natnael Behabtu at Rice pick up that thread in their discussion of what we know — or think we know — about carbon
My Robo Habilis post was picked up on by Michael Anissimov who wrote:(me:) It seems to me that one obvious way to ameliorate the impact of the AI/robotics revolution in the economic world, then, is simple: build robots whose cognitive
One of the species of early hominids is named Homo habilis, meaning "handy man," after their significant advancement in tool use over previous hominids. One of the goals of the AGI Roadmap is to chart paths to full human intelligence,