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Perhaps a little off topic, but I have thought about this a bit: the type of consciousness and ways of acting in physical reality would probably be very differe

Perhaps a little off topic, but I have thought about this a bit: the type of consciousness and ways of acting in physical reality would probably be very different for digital vs. biology-based life. As strangely different alien biological life might be, true AI will be stranger, unless it is designed and evolves to emulate us in some sense. I am reading the sci-fi book The Sea of Rust right now, that takes place on earth after AI’s have finally killed the last humans. In this fictional work, AIs take on human traits and I don’t find that “believable” even for sci-fi.

gpvos 4y ago
Indeed. Intelligent alien life is likely to have evolved out of other forms of life, so concepts as competition, survival, cooperation, are likely to be innate somehow (not necessarily in a conscious way). AI does not need to share that basis at all.
songeater 4y ago
I disagree. "AI" even if it were to exist independently of humans or other pre-existing life still needs to process and dissipate energy in order to perpetuate itself... ie it needs to be "life" first. Intelligence requires the processing of information, and the processing of information requires energy. For example, even if silicon-based AI replaced humans on earth, it would eventually [0] need to find a way to power itself / continue itself. Ultimately, it would have to revert to solving the same "problem of life"... how do we transform energy/entropy available in the environment into something that "perpetuates the system." When that happens, this AI will itself become subject to the forces of natural-selection, and - over a long enough period of time - naturally-selected traits will be re-aquired (even if such traits were "lost" during a human-to-AI hand-over). [0] Yes, of course, there could be a very large period of time during which currently constructed energy infrastructure continues on... and this period could be measured in hundreds/thousands of years... very long in terms of human lifespans, but not in geological terms.

gpvos 4y ago

Indeed. Intelligent alien life is likely to have evolved out of other forms of life, so concepts as competition, survival, cooperation, are likely to be innate somehow (not necessarily in a conscious way). AI does not need to share that basis at all.

songeater 4y ago

I disagree. "AI" even if it were to exist independently of humans or other pre-existing life still needs to process and dissipate energy in order to perpetuate itself... ie it needs to be "life" first. Intelligence requires the processing of information, and the processing of information requires energy. For example, even if silicon-based AI replaced humans on earth, it would eventually [0] need to find a way to power itself / continue itself. Ultimately, it would have to revert to solving the same "problem of life"... how do we transform energy/entropy available in the environment into something that "perpetuates the system." When that happens, this AI will itself become subject to the forces of natural-selection, and - over a long enough period of time - naturally-selected traits will be re-aquired (even if such traits were "lost" during a human-to-AI hand-over). [0] Yes, of course, there could be a very large period of time during which currently constructed energy infrastructure continues on... and this period could be measured in hundreds/thousands of years... very long in terms of human lifespans, but not in geological terms.