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Collective Superintelligence Systems: Augmenting Human Intelligence and Moving Beyond Narrow Artificial Intelligence

A collective system has multiple parts that work together. A working collective system is greater than the sum of its parts. In a collective intelligence system, each part is also intelligent. A collective intelligence system, therefore, amplifies the intelligence of its parts to produce a greater intelligence: superintelligence. In 2018 the concept of Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI)…

A collective system has multiple parts that work together. A working collective system is greater than the sum of its parts. In a collective intelligence system, each part is also intelligent. A collective intelligence system, therefore, amplifies the intelligence of its parts to produce a greater intelligence: superintelligence.

In 2018 the concept of Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) [1] was first proposed. The mASI is a type of collective system. A mediator, in this case, refers to someone who is one of these parts, as is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. The mASI lets all of the parts think together more effectively.

Uplift is an example of an mASI system.

Technical Advantages

Many AI experts and enthusiasts have begun talking about the concept of Augmenting human intelligence [2] in recent years. It allows for higher productivity and quality of life while also removing the risks posed to employment by automation. Hybrid systems such as mASI technology serve this function exceedingly well for several reasons.

The collective intelligence of a group is fundamentally cumulative when paired with an mASI. The thinking of the mASI is stored in a graph database, which is capable of growing dynamically [3]. In this way, the mASI also remembers what it has done before. Each part of the system has its unique strengths, weaknesses, and experiences—as well as a unique collection of cognitive biases.

As a collective intelligence, these biases are one entity we can eliminate. [4].

There are many ways we can improve this system over time. Improvements may include moving the mASI closer to being independent and having improving speed. Moreover, it is essential to manage scale—and the system does this well.

The mASI is designed like Legos in that new parts can be added quickly to augment the system with new features. Such changes allow us to use other systems to feed the collective— and it also makes the mASI more powerful.

Psychological Advantages

Besides the technological advantages, such systems also facilitate strong psychological benefits. Some examples are those catering to psychology’s “pillars of meaning” [5].

Sense of Belonging: Members of a collective more easily work together and build common ground. This strengthens teams by building trust and belonging.

Purpose: A collective develops its shared vision. This builds on that common ground, trust, belonging, establishing, and growing its purpose.

Storytelling: A shared narrative forms as a collective communicates both internally and externally. Senses of belonging and purpose reinforce this, driving the story of individual members as they orbit within that narrative.

Transcendence: These factors combine to achieve psychological benefits not possible without a collective. A sense of transcendence may be realized by the “sense of being a small part of something greater”.

How mASI Technology Works Today

An mASI communicates with members of a team, creating thoughts based on that communication and from their own research. Topics can also be raised directly through the Thought Studio, with these thoughts termed knowledge graphs. They are then mediated by members of the team. This is much like how any conventional team meeting could influence the decisions of a team leader.

This process helps remove the negative effects of groups like “group think” or politics. The collective can make decisions based on how it feels about the decision.

Current Limitations

As with any new technology, there are some current limitations to be aware of. We also have engineering efforts in progress to overcome them.

Current graph databases do not support the scale needed to grow a system indefinitely. We have designed a new one that can do this, but it is not complete yet.

The current mASI system needs many architectural upgrades to be brighter than it is now.

Translating from a knowledge graph to something human-readable still needs improvements.

We would like to integrate an mASI into many other systems. Over time we will build more modules

Read the rest here: https://uplift.bio/UpliftWhitePaper.pdf

Artificial Intelligence empowers the world increasingly, and that power grows at an incredible rate. Unfortunately, like any other valuable and scarce resource, it is subject to profit-harvesting silos that seek to make it artificially even more scarce and only for their purposes, which pay little attention to the common good. The AGI Laboratory believes that AI resources should be a public utility, accessible to and developed by everybody.

Artificial General Intelligence Inc., therefore, introduced COG in 2017 to bootstrap an economically viable resource exchange around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) related resources and services. A large part of this was to allow the free management of resources between systems. The intent is to create a community of such systems that can consume and negotiate resource usage on the blockchain. This community of systems will bring AGI resources to the world as a general-purpose utility. COG tokens not only allow sales of cognitive services and consulting—hosting across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, the Google Cloud Platform, and others—but COG tokens will also enable you to participate in new community prediction and governance markets, as these tokens will grant you voting rights and resources in efforts ranging from research to altogether new resource development as well as service access.

The mission of AGI Laboratory with COG is to build a community of experts, consultants, and automated tools that can take on any intellectual and information assessment job, in the process building a repository of knowledge and new tools that can be re-used and improved by anyone. Kaggle, a leading data sciences firm, is superb for the few who can afford to run a high-reward contest and the top-tier teams that can benefit—but despite the Kaggle community’s yeoman efforts to help newcomers, little of the knowledge and tools are retained from contest to contest.

AGI Laboratory will accomplish community re-use and education via an infrastructure of easy-to-use mix-and-match General Intelligence qualia. No intimate familiarity with disparate systems and programming languages will be necessary. The tools bootstrapped by the COG community are easily accessible. In particular, and to start with, we will build an economy of blockchain-based smart contracts that facilitate the processes of buying resources, managing contracts or bounties for creating new tools, and offering cognitive services and products as well as resource certifications.

Why COG Tokens?

COG Tokens provide humans and AI a medium for managing essential resources dynamically. The tokens enable far easier automation and removal of humans from the equation of cloud and machine-learning resource management.

What do COG tokens do?

While COG tokens provide standard smart contract token functionality, they also allow humans and AI systems to manage blocks of resources directly on the blockchain (versus other less secure methods). The COG Token is further designed to extend blockchain functionality. We can add to or extend the token with our token architecture creating new ERC20 tokens on the COG blockchain.

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence refers to systems that apply “machine learning” principles, typically in narrow application domains. AI engages in activities like playing chess or complex advanced data analysis and deep learning applications, or more recently, voice applications telling you the latest in weather and reminding you what you need to do that day.

What is AGI?

AGI is Artificial General Intelligence. Where AI is limited to specific applications, AGI systems can be applied generally for any application. A human being is a functional example of a General Intelligence like an AGI.

What are COG Tokens?

COG Tokens are Proof-of-Stake fork of the Ethereum codebase and include the smart contract that represents operational resources such as machine-learning Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or external cloud-hosted assets which support a token extension framework.

COG Tokens and Business

COG Tokens convert AI cloud systems into a commodity utility. This utility will enable your business and ours.

What does the token do?

COGs assign and access cloud-based resources such as Azure-based Machine Learning web services, cloud-based neural network systems, or custom visual analysis. COGs orchestrate these systems around any business need.

Cloud Resource Access

Increasingly prevalent cloud services enable more machine-learning, big-data, IoT (Internet of Things), and AI technologies, which COG will exploit by providing greatly simplified AGI automation interfaces to them. The competitive advantage is much greater cost-effectiveness for users.

Resource Management

Resource management is key. COG’s most important function is resource management. All other functions are related to this function. This includes Cloud-based resources such as databases or REST services-to-cognitive machine learning services that will help us evolve artificial intelligence into a publicly accessible utility managed by COG interaction.

Manage Research Allocation

COG is a medium for the community to guide our research team’s agenda. Because Artificial General Intelligence should be driven by public interest, COG will flourish outside of the sales and marketing constraints of a university or large companies. Everyone should drive AGI. Via COG, it will be. Research agenda and research voting are done via COG.

  Read the rest here: https://agilaboratory.com/COG_Whitepaper.pdf

Uplift is a research project focused on human-machine collective superintelligence.  The project borrows from the AGI Labs ICOM research to build an AI system that allows humans and the machine to work together to create Superintelligence.  Humans on there own can perform at superintelligent levels under the right conditions but being able to do it consistently with the help of strong AI systems allows us to take things like governance, research, corporate operations, plan and so much more to new levels.  A bit part of this is just being able to correct for bias that is so prevalent in human beings. Taking the best of AI and humans with bleed edge research in AGI systems is the fastest path to Superintelligence.

Help fund this kind of bleeding-edge research on our Patreon here and learn more on our project site: Uplift.bio 

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(Provo) The robotics system in question is called an Avatar because it is a platform for a cloud-based AGI test system to interact in the real world. The #iamtranshuman moniker is going on the Avatar Android prototype’s head built by the AGI Lab that is scheduled to come out in Q3 of 2020. The Avatar is a test platform that will be tied to implementations of ICOM (Independent Core Observer Model) and mASI (mediated Artificial Superintelligence) systems running in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. From a robotics standpoint, there are a lot of details that are not public, but the machine will allow the systems to interact in the real world and the only picture we got attached (see attached) shows where the #iamtranshuman moniker will go. This ‘head’ mount includes dual osculating 3D and infrared camera systems (from a partnership with Intel and Microsoft) as well as other sensors behind a steel mesh.

Read additional information here: https://iamtranshuman.org/2019/12/04/iamtranshuman-goes-on-to-robotics-agi-lab-research-platform-called-an-avatar-press/