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I have a few thoughts about doomsday level AIs: 1. We _will_ eventually crack "general intelligence". If nature is able to do it with 9 months of build time an
by ryandvm 7y ago
I have a few thoughts about doomsday level AIs:
1. We _will_ eventually crack "general intelligence". If nature is able to do it with 9 months of build time and a few pounds of meat, there's no physical reason we can't do it on silicon (or whatever substrate is next)...
2. When we finally develop a half-way decent general intelligence, much like human intelligence, we're not going to have any idea how it works.
3. It will probably end up employing a lot of the same cognitive shortcuts that humans use (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases). And in doing so we're likely to end up with a general intelligence that, on the whole, is capable of much greater calculation, but ultimately will be a disaster as it will suffer from the same sort of psychological flaws.
Human survival is probably going to come down to humanity trying to talk a super-intelligent AI out of some crazy ass conspiracy theories. It will be like the ultimate Thanksgiving with your crazy uncle.
- saagarjha 7y ago> If nature is able to do it with 9 months of build time and a few pounds of meat, there's no physical reason we can't do it on silicon (or whatever substrate is next)... Nature had a couple billion years to figure it out.
- telesilla 7y agoHuman intelligence isn't just the biological process - you can't have a baby in a vacuum and it becomes intelligent. You also need an intelligent culture to learn from and within.
- xamuel 7y agoOur Tower of Babel _will_ eventually reach heaven.
- ryandvm 7y agoAnd mankind will never be able to soar like the birds. shrug We've seen this play out many, many times before...
- xamuel 7y agoTo "soar like the birds" would mean to be able to fly at will and land at will, wherever and whenever you desire, as effortlessly as walking. You're absolutely right, mankind will never be able to soar like the birds. Even if we could figure out the technology, it would be a privacy/safety/liability nightmare and they'd make laws against doing it.