It appears that you doubt that an AI whose ontology is simpler and cleaner than that of a human can possibly be intellectually more powerful than a human.
All else being equal, I would doubt that with respect to a simpler ontology, while the ‘cleaner’ adjective is less well defined.
Look at it in terms of the number of possible circuit/program configurations that are “intellectually more powerful than a human” as a function of the circuit/program’s total bit size.
At around the human level of roughly 10^15 I’m almost positive there are intellectually more powerful designs—so P_SH(10^15) = 1.0.
I’m also positive that beyond some threshold there are absolutely zero possible configurations of superhuman intellect—say P_SH(10^10) ~ 0.0.
Of course “intellectually more powerful” is open to interpretation. I’m thinking of it here in terms of the range of general intelligence tasks human brains are specially optimized for.
IBM’s Watson is superhuman in a certain novel narrow range of abilities, and it’s of complexity around 10^12 to 10^13.
It appears that you doubt that an AI whose ontology is simpler and cleaner than that of a human can possibly be intellectually more powerful than a human.
All else being equal, I would doubt that with respect to a simpler ontology, while the ‘cleaner’ adjective is less well defined.
Look at it in terms of the number of possible circuit/program configurations that are “intellectually more powerful than a human” as a function of the circuit/program’s total bit size.
At around the human level of roughly 10^15 I’m almost positive there are intellectually more powerful designs—so P_SH(10^15) = 1.0.
I’m also positive that beyond some threshold there are absolutely zero possible configurations of superhuman intellect—say P_SH(10^10) ~ 0.0.
Of course “intellectually more powerful” is open to interpretation. I’m thinking of it here in terms of the range of general intelligence tasks human brains are specially optimized for.
IBM’s Watson is superhuman in a certain novel narrow range of abilities, and it’s of complexity around 10^12 to 10^13.