Tegmark, Sandberg et al. call 'supersized machines' impossible
TL;DR
- Nine researchers including Max Tegmark and Anders Sandberg posted an arXiv paper arguing machines cannot exceed human size.
- The abstract claims 'at least seven distinct arguments' preclude the outcome, but does not enumerate them.
- The nine-page paper, submitted March 31, 2017, sits in the 'April 1 arXiv' collection of joke submissions.
Machines cannot ever exceed human size. That is the claim in a nine-page arXiv paper, 'On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines,' by Max Tegmark, Anders Sandberg, Miles Brundage, Ben Garfinkel and five other authors.
The abstract opens by noting that 'a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one day become as large as humans.' The response, in the authors' own words: 'there are at least seven distinct arguments that preclude this outcome. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible.'
The paper runs nine pages with two figures, filed under Computers and Society and Popular Physics. It was submitted March 31, 2017, and is catalogued as part of the 'April 1 arXiv' collection of joke submissions. The abstract does not list the seven arguments.
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