Gigaom AI Minute – August 27

Transcript

How would one go about building an artificial general intelligence? No one really knows. There's one argument, however, that it would be a different kind of technology than the weak or narrow AI we have today. One interesting line of thought suggests that it may actually not be all that much source code. It's an argument from human genetics, which says that while we have 700 MB of code in our DNA, we share an enormous amount of it with plants and other things that are intelligent. If you look at the amount of DNA in humans that's different from say a chimp or bonobo, it may be as little as half a percent in common, which would imply that it's just a few MB of code that might be all you need to build something that can then go on to be intelligent.