{"id":31,"date":"2015-06-17T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2021-11-17T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T02:42:41","slug":"superintelligence-there-will-be-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/superintelligence-there-will-be-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Superintelligence: There Will Be Blood&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in both of these superintelligence animations. You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical storytelling is a reductive process.<\/strong> A distillation. You&#8217;ve got to consider all the info you can hold in your tiny human brain, eliminate the noise, and prioritize the core elements. Then reduce THAT version again to get to a working script. That means some things get left out. It&#8217;s unavoidable. <strong>When you make an explainer, you choose what NOT to include.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what made us decide to produce&nbsp;TWO videos on superintelligence: it&#8217;s&nbsp;a massive, complex, multivalent problem, impossible to summarize in a 90-second video. Heck, we could do 50&nbsp;more videos and still not cover it all. <strong>So both of these animations communicate PART of the story, but neither tells the whole&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>story.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6471;\">THE&nbsp;Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows\" width=\"736\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rRJ9Ep1Wzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Professor Bostrom&#8217;s 2014 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom\/dp\/0199678111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies<\/a> is a thorough, sober, measured examination of how superintelligence might emerge, and what that means for the future of humanity. He leaves no stone unturned, so if you want a serious understanding of the topic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom\/dp\/0199678111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you&#8217;ve got to read his book.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the topic is SO complex, <strong>he brilliantly prefaced his (sometimes technical) book with a parable.<\/strong> It likens humanity&#8217;s pursuit of strong general AI to some sparrows who think they should raise an owl. The fable&#8217;s not the whole story of superintelligence, but it certainly illuminates how foolhardy the pursuit of superintelligence is without FIRST considering the control &amp; motivation problems.&nbsp;<strong>We thought The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows was begging to be made into an animation, so we made one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sales@parkerharper.com\">sales@parkerharper.com<\/a>&nbsp;to hire this artist for your animation project.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5><strong>SuperIntelligence: Will Humans Survive?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Superintelligence: Will Humans Survive?\" width=\"736\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCirRv-IaGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong> DISCLAIMER: WE&#8217;RE NOT SCIENTISTS, WE&#8217;RE AN ANIMATION STUDIO. This video DRASTICALLY OVERSIMPLIFIES the topic of superintelligence.<\/strong> But it&#8217;s a great example of how technical storytelling SHOULD work: help viewers understand the IMPACT of a technical subject, without going too deep into the details. It&#8217;s flypaper that grabs viewers and piques their curiosity. And it&#8217;s a great animation.<\/p>\n<p>Contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sales@parkerharper.com\">sales@parkerharper.com<\/a>&nbsp;to hire this artist &amp; writer for your&nbsp;explainer animation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5><strong>Help Save Humanity (seriously)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Nick Bostrom is Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Future of Humanity Institute. <\/a>They&#8217;re trying to figure out how to make the emergence of superintelligence safer for human beings, and they could probably use some help.<br \/>\n<strong>Future of Humanity Institue, Universtiy of Oxford<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Read More<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong><em>Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom\/dp\/0199678111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom\/dp\/0199678111<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>&#8216;Wait But Why&#8217; blog<\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two shorter (but still kinda long) blog posts<\/a> that will give you a better understanding of superintelligence while you&#8217;re waiting for your kindle version of Bostrom&#8217;s book to download:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/01\/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in both of these superintelligence animations. You&#8217;ve been warned. Technical storytelling is a reductive process. A distillation. You&#8217;ve got to consider all the info you can hold in your tiny human brain, eliminate the noise, and prioritize the core elements. Then reduce THAT version again to get to a working script. That means some things&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/superintelligence-there-will-be-blood\/#more-31\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/superintel.jpg?fit=400%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkerharper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}