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"[...] machines have algorithms, and they're getting better and better, but machines have no curiosity, no passion, and most importantly, machines don't have pu

"[...] machines have algorithms, and they're getting better and better, but machines have no curiosity, no passion, and most importantly, machines don't have purpose." IMHO the greatest uncertainty regarding AI, and in that sense the greatest risk, is what happens precisely when AI becomes so good that it can be made to have all those features. Intelligence probably is the toughest part of a more global objective that is to emulate whatever the human body and brain can do. A world where machines can do whatever the human body does is vastly different from ours. It's hard to even imagine it, even though some authors are trying [1]. And some of the possibilities include the end of our biological lineage. 1. http://ageofem.com/ http://ageofem.com/

AndrewKemendo 9y ago
Humans have no purpose, at least not objectively. None of these traits is uniquely human nor are they magical. If it's a material property, eventually it will be replicated through engineering.
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Santosh83 9y ago
It will probably come from the opposite direction, i.e., integrating more and more cybernetics into our bodies until at some point we're essentially only our brains (biologically). Whether something non-biological can show emergent properties that the brain has remains to be seen. In any case even AI completely indistinguishable from ourselves is likely only to be as much of a threat as our children are. Everything depends on how it is managed. Apocalptic scenarios generally can only happen in a tightly connected, online society with no offline fallback mechanisms for control. If we are that careless/stupid, then perhaps AI taking over our systems (and hence us) is not so bad after all...? AI needs creative intelligence, ability to learn and adapt the very process by which it learns, as well as links to the physical world enabling it to control and perpetuate its existence. The entire process is in our (human) control. Until the very end. The other direction is frankly more scary. Augmented human beings and other existing living beings. That is much more prone to go haywire and pose a threat.
- manyoso 9y ago
  This involves speculating on a race between two other highly speculative technical research projects: 1) When AI is able to mimic humans in terms of creativity, passion, emotions, etc 2) When we are able to biologically integrate compute resources into the human body Future scenarios might be vastly different depending on which of these two technical research projects wins the race.
- grondilu 9y ago
  I think both directions are basically going to the same destination. I believe we should worry more about the "artificial human" than about "artificial intelligence". To get to the artificial human there are several paths, biological (with genetic engineering), cybernetics (gradual replacement of body parts with non-organic artefacts), robotics (non-organic from the start) and software (brain emulation). I believe all those paths eventually lead to the same kind of difficulties in predicting what kind of world they would bring.

AndrewKemendo 9y ago

Humans have no purpose, at least not objectively. None of these traits is uniquely human nor are they magical. If it's a material property, eventually it will be replicated through engineering.

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Santosh83 9y ago

It will probably come from the opposite direction, i.e., integrating more and more cybernetics into our bodies until at some point we're essentially only our brains (biologically). Whether something non-biological can show emergent properties that the brain has remains to be seen. In any case even AI completely indistinguishable from ourselves is likely only to be as much of a threat as our children are. Everything depends on how it is managed. Apocalptic scenarios generally can only happen in a tightly connected, online society with no offline fallback mechanisms for control. If we are that careless/stupid, then perhaps AI taking over our systems (and hence us) is not so bad after all...? AI needs creative intelligence, ability to learn and adapt the very process by which it learns, as well as links to the physical world enabling it to control and perpetuate its existence. The entire process is in our (human) control. Until the very end. The other direction is frankly more scary. Augmented human beings and other existing living beings. That is much more prone to go haywire and pose a threat.

manyoso 9y ago
This involves speculating on a race between two other highly speculative technical research projects: 1) When AI is able to mimic humans in terms of creativity, passion, emotions, etc 2) When we are able to biologically integrate compute resources into the human body Future scenarios might be vastly different depending on which of these two technical research projects wins the race.
grondilu 9y ago
I think both directions are basically going to the same destination. I believe we should worry more about the "artificial human" than about "artificial intelligence". To get to the artificial human there are several paths, biological (with genetic engineering), cybernetics (gradual replacement of body parts with non-organic artefacts), robotics (non-organic from the start) and software (brain emulation). I believe all those paths eventually lead to the same kind of difficulties in predicting what kind of world they would bring.