评库兹韦尔的智能哲学

Review on Ray Kurzweil's artificial intelligence philosophy

库兹韦尔认为智能进化是宇宙中最重要的事件,经历了自然进化与技术进化两个阶段,分别产生了人脑智能与人工智能,二者的结合导致奇点的出现。他把智能理解为类似物质、能量的特殊存在,智能可以注入物体之中,使“愚蠢的物质”进化为“聪明的物质”。地球上的智能以光速在星系中扩展,最后整个宇宙充满智能,这便是“宇宙觉醒”。智能将设计和创造新宇宙,所以“智能比宇宙更强大”。他指出,人工智能技术的目标是“精神追求”,它的发展是“精神事业”,有助于我们思考物质世界的“精神实质”。库兹韦尔的这些观点,是关于智能生存的哲学想象。继自然生存、机械技术生存之后,人类开始进入智能生存,主要依赖人工智能物和人工智能技术生存。人工智能优于人脑智能,二者贡献的比例是社会进步的新标志。

Ray Kurzweil thought that intelligent evolution was the most significant event during the long journey of the whole universe through two stages of natural evolution and technological evolution, and therein dwelt human brain intelligence and artificial intelligence respectively. In the meanwhile, the integration of human brain intelligence and artificial intelligence led to the emergence of Singularity. Ray Kurzweil regarded intelligence as substance and energy of somehow special-being, which was so special that it could even be transfused into objects, so that the stupid substances would develop up into their smart counterparts. Intelligence of the Earth was expanding among galaxies with the speed of light until the whole universe was filled up with intelligence, and when the universe was full enough it mutated to be Universal Awakening. And then intelligence would design and develop a new universe, and this led to the conclusion that intelligence was more powerful than the universe. He pointed out that the final goal of artificial intelligence was the pursuit of spirit, and the development of artificial intelligence therefore was the cause of spirit, which conduced to our reflection on the spiritual essence of the substantial world. All of the opinions of Ray Kurzweil mentioned above were the philosophical imaginations of intelligent survival. The intelligent survival of human beings came after natural survival and technological survival, which was highly dependent on artificial intelligence items as well as artificial intelligence technology. According to Kurzweil, artificial intelligence was superior to human brain intelligence, and the proportion of their contribution to social development marked a new milestone of social progress.