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>I don't think it is even a common idea that it is a specific goal of general AI research to make it "faster" than a human brain. Faster for what? Thinking fast
by joejerryronnie 8y ago
>I don't think it is even a common idea that it is a specific goal of general AI research to make it "faster" than a human brain. Faster for what? Thinking faster? Being smarter - sure? Being more agile in terms of not requiring sleep, or being ever-vigilant while things like driving for exapmle, sure. But faster? What would that even mean in practice? We already have machines that are faster than humans at physical tasks, they don't require GAI.
I think a large concern regarding AI is the notion that machines will develop the ability to process information, make decisions, and evolve their own capabilities at speeds exponentially faster than humans can comprehend, much less react to - leading to some horrible dystopia or extinction level event. Futurists have projected that by the end of this century, all major/strategic business decisions will be made solely by AI entities. I can see the distribution of multiple, slower AI's being more powerful than a single faster AI, but only if the multitude worked together toward a common goal rather than at odds with each other.
>Even if this is a slow AI, we could just copy it multiple times and make them work together. Like people are working together now. If you only have 10 people in the world sufficiently knowledgable in a field, they can only do so much work and progress. If you could copy each one of them 1000 times, those copies could pursue different paths simultaneously and the progress would be much faster. Or why not copy a perfect store clerk so that no people would need to do that anymore?
Is it a foregone conclusion that true general purpose AI will ultimately result in sentience? If yes, once sentience is attained, would the AI's "agree" to do anything we asked of them? Would sentient AI's work as a hive mind or would they be as fractious as current human politics (I would hate to meet the first "Trumpian" AI in a dark alley)?