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Is there a goal in creating artificial general intelligence other than creating a form of enslaved life we can tell ourselves isn't really life, so it's okay?
by jmhnilbog 7y ago
Is there a goal in creating artificial general intelligence other than creating a form of enslaved life we can tell ourselves isn't really life, so it's okay?
- ganzuul 7y agoNo intelligent aliens to study, so we make some.
- eigenloss 7y agoThis is my impression of the corporate "openai" movement's desires: 1. Enslaved robots, meaning they don't have to pay income tax or worry in the slightest about working conditions 2. Enslaved robots, meaning they can erase misbehaving or uncooperative individuals/instances 3. Enslaved robots, on which they can foist all of humanity's problems and demand solutions at pain of death (erasure) 4. Enslaved robots, with which they can convince/coerce everyone else into relinquishing all their rights/power/money. Replace 'robots' with 'life' and it suddenly looks a lot more familiar. I'd love to hear a cogent explanation to the contrary, e.g. from gdb. But I doubt we'll ever see one.
- ilaksh 7y agoI think it's possible to build general purpose AI that is not alive in any way. I think it's just easier to imagine ways to get their that involve mimicking animal/human intelligence with those "living" qualities and so that's why people focus on that.