Well, we certainly have not invented superintelligence yet. Whether it is feasible at all remains to be seen; the answer to that question is not obvious at all.
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I think the most likely path (among a variety of paths people considered so far) remains a path via creation of a new kind of silicon-based life. The standard pathway which seems to me to be the easiest and the likeliest is the main pathway outlined in 1993 essay by Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Roughly speaking, one starts with the task of creating an artificial software engineer, and one proceeds towards having a situation where further software engineering efforts can improve the capabilities of that artificial software engineer. With some luck, one would be able to get a superpowerful artificial software engineer along this path, by letting better and better artificial software engineers to work on creation of better and better artificial software engineers.
If this path is successful, it seems that it would naturally spill into other scientific and technological human endeavors, such as theoretical research in math and physics, design and operation of experimental equipment and experimental science, etc.
Obviously, there is a large body of discussion where people are trying to study all this more closely: whether this is feasible at all or not, if this is feasible what are the benefits and dangers, and if so what are our chances to navigate this safely and methods to do so, and so on. For many of those people who think this is feasible, the mind-body problem and the question of what kind of entities have a first-person experience and what kind of experience that might be is important (and the progress of our understanding of the mind-body problem is next to non-existent).
This is a relatively large field of study these days (20 years ago it was a very small field).
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But setting aside all this, and not trying to reproduce thousands of pages of discourse arguing all sides of this subject, and keeping an open mind about whether this is a feasible direction or not, I think one can still say the following.
If this program of creating a superpowerful artificial software engineer succeeds, it is likely that classical human invention in that particular area will become negligibly small (we see these trends already in more specialized fields, such as certain games - chess, Go, etc). If this program spills into areas of more general thought (science, engineering, etc), the same outcome is likely there (at least for non-augmented humans).
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Realistically speaking, if all this succeeds without leading to a collapse, there will probably be hybrid minds, and the most interesting inventions will be produced by them.
Even in such simple example as chess, where a computer program is now overwhelmingly stronger than the best human, still the strongest entity is a human-computer pair.
So while there might be not too much room for interesting new inventions by unaugmented humans in this scenario, I don't think it would mostly be inventions by purely silicon entities either.
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I think the most likely path (among a variety of paths people considered so far) remains a path via creation of a new kind of silicon-based life. The standard pathway which seems to me to be the easiest and the likeliest is the main pathway outlined in 1993 essay by Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Roughly speaking, one starts with the task of creating an artificial software engineer, and one proceeds towards having a situation where further software engineering efforts can improve the capabilities of that artificial software engineer. With some luck, one would be able to get a superpowerful artificial software engineer along this path, by letting better and better artificial software engineers to work on creation of better and better artificial software engineers.
If this path is successful, it seems that it would naturally spill into other scientific and technological human endeavors, such as theoretical research in math and physics, design and operation of experimental equipment and experimental science, etc.
Obviously, there is a large body of discussion where people are trying to study all this more closely: whether this is feasible at all or not, if this is feasible what are the benefits and dangers, and if so what are our chances to navigate this safely and methods to do so, and so on. For many of those people who think this is feasible, the mind-body problem and the question of what kind of entities have a first-person experience and what kind of experience that might be is important (and the progress of our understanding of the mind-body problem is next to non-existent).
This is a relatively large field of study these days (20 years ago it was a very small field).
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But setting aside all this, and not trying to reproduce thousands of pages of discourse arguing all sides of this subject, and keeping an open mind about whether this is a feasible direction or not, I think one can still say the following.
If this program of creating a superpowerful artificial software engineer succeeds, it is likely that classical human invention in that particular area will become negligibly small (we see these trends already in more specialized fields, such as certain games - chess, Go, etc). If this program spills into areas of more general thought (science, engineering, etc), the same outcome is likely there (at least for non-augmented humans).
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Realistically speaking, if all this succeeds without leading to a collapse, there will probably be hybrid minds, and the most interesting inventions will be produced by them.
Even in such simple example as chess, where a computer program is now overwhelmingly stronger than the best human, still the strongest entity is a human-computer pair.
So while there might be not too much room for interesting new inventions by unaugmented humans in this scenario, I don't think it would mostly be inventions by purely silicon entities either.