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General AI relative to an individual human, or billions of humans? The sum total of human beings, or organizations of humans is superhuman relative to an indivi
by goatlover 9y ago
General AI relative to an individual human, or billions of humans? The sum total of human beings, or organizations of humans is superhuman relative to an individual. We've had superhuman organizations for millennia. I'm not sure how much general AI will be different, other than the large scale automation of jobs which would happen.
As Rodney Brooks pointed out, all technology happens within a context, not a vacuum. A general AI will come to exist in a world with a lot of other superhuman capabilities already in existence.
- nothis 9y agoOne of the more interesting things the success of "starting with zero" suggests is that the idea that some mystical "human consciousness" is the end goal for AI might be laughable in the long term. AI might just casually bypass human consciousness, say "oh, hi!" and wave us goodbye a day later. Also, a factor of 7 billion "happens" in computer science. This is getting rather creepy to think of, even if it's still science fiction. At this point, I could see a computer that out-thinks humanity within decades. What would it think? What would we even do with its findings? Would we understand it? Would it understand itself? Would it know how to manipulate us?