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I strongly agree. We many never see a machine that can fool humans into think that machine is also human, but then again why do we actually want that? Just for

I strongly agree. We many never see a machine that can fool humans into think that machine is also human, but then again why do we actually want that? Just for novelty? We look at a dolphin and we can say "that is an independently intelligent animal" that we can't really do much with. We look at a dog and say "that is a useful, trainable, intelligent animal" that we as humans couldn't have survived without during parts of the history of our species. A dolphin is far smarter, but it doesn't matter because there's only one intelligent animal we couldn't have lived without, and it's actually pretty dumb compared to a dolphin. The question is, do we want an AI that is smart by itself, or do we want an AI that is smart and useful to us? Those don't have to be the same thing, as evidenced by the dolphin vs the dog. Humans are really, really good at producing very efficient machines with strong intellect, we do it by accident all the time. We don't need more humans, humans are flawed and humans have a lot of undesirable traits to go along with the intelligence. Strong, general AI will be its own species, with its own unique way of thinking and its own quirks. Trying to replicate humans exactly is futile and worthless. We want a machine that can learn and do useful stuff. We don't need a human made of silicon for that. We need a mechanical dog.

__s 9y ago
Likely some fear a sufficiently intelligent AI without human like values will render human life obsolete-- and then extinct Humans seem pretty good at enacting the latter all on their lonesome
mindcrime 9y ago
Strong, general AI will be its own species, with its own unique way of thinking and its own quirks. Trying to replicate humans exactly is futile and worthless. Well said. We don't need a human made of silicon for that. We need a mechanical dog. That's a very eloquent way of putting it. I may have to steal this quote from you sometime!

__s 9y ago

Likely some fear a sufficiently intelligent AI without human like values will render human life obsolete-- and then extinct Humans seem pretty good at enacting the latter all on their lonesome

mindcrime 9y ago

Strong, general AI will be its own species, with its own unique way of thinking and its own quirks. Trying to replicate humans exactly is futile and worthless. Well said. We don't need a human made of silicon for that. We need a mechanical dog. That's a very eloquent way of putting it. I may have to steal this quote from you sometime!