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But we will be different. Consciousness, will, and self-awareness are emergent, not functional, properties of the brain - the way the economy emerges from billions of transactions. If anything analogous to self-awareness emerges from a different architecture, it will be incomprehensible to us.I believe tranhumanism will move along side advanced AI. The two feeding off each other in order to advance. So even if machines do become violent human beings will have the capabilities to rival them.
Maybe. Perhaps we can give machines emergent properties too.But we will be different. Consciousness, will, and self-awareness are emergent, not functional, properties of the brain - the way the economy emerges from billions of transactions. If anything analogous to self-awareness emerges from a different architecture, it will be incomprehensible to us.
Why are those things bad? Less work is a good thing.
Generally, in economics, it is assumed that an increase in production and GDP will lead to an increase in jobs and employment. More money inside the business leads to more people getting hired by the business. Once AI and automation reaches the point where it becomes cheaper to use some type of computer or machine than people, people become economically inefficient. In other words, economic growth no longer will substantially correlate with job growth.
For example, take cashiers and the like. If you own a grocery store, it is ultimately cheaper to have 18 self-checkouts with better monitoring equipment and being tended by three cashiers then having 18 cashiers, especially in the long run. The only major barriers are a possible increase in theft (hence better monitoring systems and possibly an extra cashier/more demanding workforce environment), customers desire for human interaction (something that younger generations are less desiring of), and lack of computer-sense among customers (again, something that will gradually go away). There is also evidence there for fast food types of restaurants to switch to automatic ordering because people tend to buy more without a person talking to them. Again, the only problem is a potential lack of computer know-how, but this gradually will go away.
In other words, less work is good- so long as you can get around the same amount of money, you remain employed, and the economic does not tank.
Even closer to the show’s premise: Just a few weeks ago, more than 1,000 scientists signed an open letter arguing for the banning of AI-driven weaponry. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is—practically if not legally—feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high,” reads the letter signed by Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Steve Wozniak.
As with all laws, a minority (at the least) will disobey.Why doesn't anyone think that AIs would be programmed with something akin to Asimov's Laws of Robotics? Or fail safe switches?![]()
In my perfect dream world everybody thinks just like you.Simply program it not to want to kill people.
Homo = human genus / genus containing the many species of humanAre you suggesting computers will only be attracted to the same sex of computer? As a gay computer I am offended because I choose this lifestyle. I was not programmed this way!
Does how many other people have concerns over super intelligent AI?
I'm very pro-technology, but I'm increasingly concerned that AI could destroy or enslave us in my lifetime.
Not out of malice... just because it think's it's practical.
Obviously a super intelligent AI could out predict us, so there's no way we could stop it.
Can we be sure that no AI is made which we can't control? Or must we trust that the first one's will protect us?
"Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans."
— Nick Bostrom, "Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence", 2003
the economy will have to adapt to the masters of it- human beings. people who are so foolish to think that the economy is a God over humans are the ones who think they need to work like slaves in order to have a meaningful existence in the world (there are certainly people who have such beliefs, be they subconscious or not). humans will have to find meaning besides work eventually, if technology ends up supplying people with the basics they have need of. of course knowing how insane humans are they would rather kill one another rather than solve world hunger, which they could already have done.
all the money of the USA is pretend anyways. people just agree that it has value. one day people will figure that out.
people can't keep going at it as they now are. they have to become better or they will destroy themselves. change is coming and no one can stop it, so they need to make it good rather than evil.
I think the last ditch effort of trying to save the human race from destroying themselves will have to be aliens. if we can't be the race of intelligence beings that survives through our awkward growing pains then I hope there is some form of intelligence that can help us out. maybe it will be an advanced AI from an alien race that just did not know how to reach us in any other way other than with some kind of AI. that would be neat. it could even be a human created AI that comes up with ideas on how to better the human race. i'm all for any good ideas.
AI can help humans too. there is always risk of good or evil happening. and if we can't survive our own insanity that we pretend we don't have then maybe we could at least make a self-replicating AI that can survive. maybe somewhere in the universe that already happened, or will.
The solution is available already. Are you willing , is (probably)the only question that matters.The problem is quite clear: we need to devise a way of transferring wealth from the employed to the unemployed that allows both sides to be satisfied. Then, we'll need to deal with scarcity of resources .....
Forget aliens for a minute.We can't say for certain, but I would not want to meet any alien culture without being on equal technological terms. Being an inferior power is not a good thing. I would not assume aliens would be benevolent; the opposite, in fact.
The solution is available already. Are you willing , is (probably)the only question that matters.
Forget aliens for a minute.
Think Washington d.c.
No way to be on any kind of "equal technological terms", and it doesn't matter at all.
The same criteria as above: "Are you willing", is all that matters. (probably).
The solution has already been provided.