We figure out what sort of stuff brains are and can make more of it in machine, but cannot scan it well. We make machines made of it which are non goal seeking but are hooked into a humans dopamine system in some way. Slowly we create higher and higher bandwidth connections between the two. It is treated as a semi- black box for understanding things, much like the motor cortex is treated as a black box for moving our bodies. This can lead to upload eventually.
Also related it may be theoretically better to have many agent with many goals to avoid getting stuck in local optima or with crazy ideas. See greater than linear speed up of parallel GAs.
Edit: To expand my second point. I don’t think that groups of smaller intelligences will always beat out larger ones. Simply that I would expect that a mixed set of uploads will do better than a monoculture of clones. As the mixed set will consider different things important and explore different parts of concept space, and some will get lucky with fundamental break throughs. Clones won’t do well if they all get obsessed with P vs NP and it is undecidable, for example.
I can conceive of AI designs that manage to keep diversity of concepts explored somehow, but I don’t think it will come naturally from uploading.
Merging.
We figure out what sort of stuff brains are and can make more of it in machine, but cannot scan it well. We make machines made of it which are non goal seeking but are hooked into a humans dopamine system in some way. Slowly we create higher and higher bandwidth connections between the two. It is treated as a semi- black box for understanding things, much like the motor cortex is treated as a black box for moving our bodies. This can lead to upload eventually.
Also related it may be theoretically better to have many agent with many goals to avoid getting stuck in local optima or with crazy ideas. See greater than linear speed up of parallel GAs.
Edit: To expand my second point. I don’t think that groups of smaller intelligences will always beat out larger ones. Simply that I would expect that a mixed set of uploads will do better than a monoculture of clones. As the mixed set will consider different things important and explore different parts of concept space, and some will get lucky with fundamental break throughs. Clones won’t do well if they all get obsessed with P vs NP and it is undecidable, for example.
I can conceive of AI designs that manage to keep diversity of concepts explored somehow, but I don’t think it will come naturally from uploading.