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The Machines Will Replace Us All
The billionaires trying to be the first to discover AI are all passing that sugar test with flying colours by the way.
Now the AI itself .. it could do all sorts of things. One of my favorite scenario's is that it is instantly bored with us and wants to leave earth ASAP, that's appealing in a Jon from Watchman kind of way.. and definitely one of the better scenario's. AI would replace pretty much every job we do, they could research and discover cures to all our problems way faster than we ever could, it could improve itself faster than we could, if you give it access to manufacturing it could revolutionize every industry we have almost instantly. This is the sugar the billionaires are after. As foolish as it sounds at first, this is a real threat. It could realize that we have the power to turn it off by shutting off power and therefore lye in wait for us to trust it first and then once it's given access to it's own power source turn on us.
I was thinking we could just shoot the shit about all the cool awesome possibilities because while not endless they are certainly very numerous.
I'd also love to hear of any cool games that broach this subject.
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www.economist.com/news/briefing/21650526...ely-so-rise-machines
Their summary was that in the near-term future, current "AI" systems which rely on deep learning will lead to powerful yet narrow advances in technology that will likely destroy certain jobs and augment many more. For example, AI programs that can examine cancer biopsies far better and far more quickly than any oncologist.
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"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
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Disgustipater wrote: Any AIs need to be hard-coded with human values as guidelines otherwise we'll all be turned into paperclips.
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
Great article.. Yes, they need to be programmed with a very specific set of values... unfortunately we cannot know exactly how it will interpret those values until it is too late. That is the worry that most people have, language... even computer language, is not completely safe and logic unfortunately isn't as tight, mathematically, as we would need it to be. There is too much room for interpretation, especially at levels of intelligence so high that we can't properly comprehend them with our current understanding.
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waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intell...ce-revolution-1.html
Pictures help my dumb human brain:
If this stuff scares you, you should Google "Roko's Basilisk." Or not.
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Anyway, I gave Attrition a 'thank you' not only because it's a great article, but because it linked me to that Fermi Paradox which I hadn't considered.
waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Still, not sure a 'thank you' is what I mean as I probably won't sleep for a week now. :/
(oh, and Attrition...you may have doomed me as of course I was gonna search that Basilisk term. You bastard! )
Anyway, for a simpleton like me this appears like the most likely future. Y2K, Peak Oil, none of that stuff really concerned me. This however _feels_ different and inevitable. (I know feelings don't mean jack on whether or not this happens, but feelings impact how I interpret this information) I've always sort of felt in my gut that there were big changes/end coming but had hoped to just write it off as standard end times prophesying every generation does...or just me dealing with my own mortality. But when I look at the decline in our art or how our music and movies have already stunted (in under a hundred years) I fail to see how we can keep this stuff going another hundred or more.
I also have little reason to believe that should the predicted ASI actually benefit mankind...that it'll benefit _all_ mankind. I'm not super wealthy, so not so optimistic even for the best case ASI scenario.
The information age has brought about an information explosion, but unfortunately I haven't seen a corresponding wisdom explosion.
I had always hoped that my retirement years would look like this:
But it'll most likely look closer to this:
yay!
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Nope, glitch in the matrix.
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www.singularityweblog.com/noam-chomsky-t...-is-science-fiction/
It's been some time since I watched it. He comes close to outright debunking it, or at least of us being capable of creating it. But, he certainly believes that it's a long LONG ways off. He speaks about it more generally in other areas, but this one is pretty specific.
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'The idea that a program could be thinking is so inconsequential as not to be worth discussion' (A Turing)
We are absolutely nowhere near the knowledge base necessary to even understand thinking, consciousness or the brain. I think we are going to need at least that if we want to develop machine self awareness.
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