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Because a human brain is not field programmable, and improving cognitive ability isn't as simple as plugging in another stick of RAM. The worry about AI is the
by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Because a human brain is not field programmable, and improving cognitive ability isn't as simple as plugging in another stick of RAM. The worry about AI is the bootstrap scenario, where an AI gains sufficient intelligence to modify and upgrade itself.
Sure, you're right in that humans don't understand enough about our own brains to perform such modifications, but that may simply be down to a lack of knowledge, rather than not having sufficient cognitive ability to comprehend the brain.
Additionally the hardware which an AI can run on is generally assumed to be significantly more malleable than our limited gray matter confined within our cranium
- atroyn 11y agoI think the underlying assumption you're making is that a sufficiently powerful computer could emulate the chemical processes in the brain, and that this is therefore equivalent to running a brain on a computer, decoupling cognition from brain meat. The problem is there are hard physical limits you run into in computation - it's more efficient to just do the chemistry than it is to simulate it. Our meat brains might be more efficient in terms of density and power efficiency than any physically feasible digital computer. Further, computing power can't be increased arbitrarily, especially when networks and switching come into play. Even if your simulated brain worked out how to improve itself, the resource cost to actually do so might be prohibitively high.