Neuralink has described the bandwidth they’re seeking as similar to the corpus callosum. I don’t think that’s actually necessary to achieve superhuman results. The brain is good at adding new sense organs (see research on vibrating belts, cameras attached to tongues, whiskers on finger etc). I presume that the brain is also good at linking to ‘more brain’. So, a low bandwidth interface, possibly only a few peripheral nerves, to either a von neumann architecture like the one I described above (and that memory interface could potentially also be connected to other hardware that could push and pop bits), or a computer simulation of neurons like the one in the linked paper is probably something that would be useful.
If you’re using an extremely loose definition of ‘AI superintelligence’, namely ‘a natural intelligence, physically connected to a machine that achieves otherwise unattainable performance in some dimension of intelligence’, such as say a large improvement in ‘digit span’, I believe that such a thing is possible today using extant technology.
In a more general sense, how much artificial augmentation of a ‘natural general intelligence’ is required before it qualifies as an AGI?
Any chance you could link to the study about augmented rats?
I went looking and couldn’t find it, but here’s something newer and probably more useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58831-9
Neuralink has described the bandwidth they’re seeking as similar to the corpus callosum. I don’t think that’s actually necessary to achieve superhuman results. The brain is good at adding new sense organs (see research on vibrating belts, cameras attached to tongues, whiskers on finger etc). I presume that the brain is also good at linking to ‘more brain’. So, a low bandwidth interface, possibly only a few peripheral nerves, to either a von neumann architecture like the one I described above (and that memory interface could potentially also be connected to other hardware that could push and pop bits), or a computer simulation of neurons like the one in the linked paper is probably something that would be useful.
If you’re using an extremely loose definition of ‘AI superintelligence’, namely ‘a natural intelligence, physically connected to a machine that achieves otherwise unattainable performance in some dimension of intelligence’, such as say a large improvement in ‘digit span’, I believe that such a thing is possible today using extant technology.
In a more general sense, how much artificial augmentation of a ‘natural general intelligence’ is required before it qualifies as an AGI?