Superintelligence

From the SL4 Lexicon:

superintelligence:

A level of ability enormously in advance of that possessed by humans. Despite common usage, there is probably no such thing as a "superintelligent AI"; a true superintelligence would no more resemble an AI than a human resembles an amoeba. Singularity Analysis commonly distinguishes between Weak Superintelligence, which is human thought at enormously higher speeds, and Strong Superintelligence, involving an intelligence difference similar to that distinguishing a human from a chimpanzee, or a dog, or a possibly a rock.

It has been suggested 107 that "transhuman" should refer to a mind with perhaps three or four times the computing capacity (or cognitive capacity) of a human, that "superintelligence" should refer to a mind with perhaps a hundred or a thousand times human capacity, and that "Power" (a la Vinge) should refer to a mind with billions or trillions of times the computing power of Earth's entire current population. It is noteworthy that even a transhuman is still smarter than we are and thus fundamentally incomprehensible, and also that a desktop Rod Logic suffices for superintelligence under this definition Yudkowsky01. See also Power, Transhuman Intelligence Hypothesis.Template:Wikilink