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Life

  • Life: Process that can retain its complexity and replicate.

  • Life 1.0: Life that evolves its hardware and software (biological stage).

  • Life 2.0: Life that evolves its hardware but designs much of its software (cultural stage).

  • Life 3.0: Life that designs its hardware and software (technological stage).

Intelligence

  • Intelligence: Ability to accomplish complex goals.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI): Non-biological intelligence.

  • Narrow intelligence: Ability to accomplish a narrow set of goals, e.g., play chess or drive a car.

  • General intelligence: Ability to accomplish virtually any goal, including learning.

  • Universal intelligence: Ability to acquire general intelligence given access to data and resources.

  • [Human-level] Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Ability to accomplish any cognitive task at least as well as humans.

  • Human-level AI: AGI.

  • Strong AI: AGI.

  • Superintelligence: General intelligence far beyond human level.

Civilization

  • Civilization: Interacting group of intelligent life forms.

Consciousness

  • Consciousness: Subjective experience.

  • Qualia: Individual instances of subjective experience.

Ethics

  • Ethics: Principles that govern how we should behave.

Teleology

  • Teleology: Explanation of things in terms of their goals or purposes rather than their causes.

  • Goal-oriented behavior: Behavior more easily explained via its effect than via its cause.

  • Having a goal: Exhibiting goal-oriented behavior.

  • Having purpose: Serving goals of one’s own or of another entity.

  • Friendly AI: Superintelligence whose goals are aligned with ours.

  • Cyborg: Human-machine hybrid.

  • Intelligence explosion: Recursive self-improvement rapidly leading to superintelligence.

  • Singularity: Intelligence explosion.

Universe

  • Universe: The region of space from which light has had time to reach us during the 13.8 billion years since our Big Bang.

Tegmark, M. (2017). Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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