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Why would something smarter than us be our pet?
by mkaic 4y ago
Why would something smarter than us be our pet?
- RivieraKid 4y agoBecause we will have full control over it. It will do what we ask. The AI has no motivation or personality, it's just a tool used by humans.
- pferde 4y agoMaybe it's time to start differentiating between artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness? Surely I can't be the first one to think of this...
- mkaic 4y agoI agree with the sentiment, but I also don't think such differentiation is possible, because we have no testable definition of consciousness. I genuinely look forward to the day we discover/understand the physical processes underlying our own consciousness, and how to detect/disprove it in machines, but until then... it's unfortunately unfalsifiable.
- pferde 4y agoSure, but for now, we can have a crude differentiation between an AI - a tool which has to be given an objective to work towards, and an "AC" - an entity (an intentionally vague noun) which can devise its own objectives and motivations and work toward them.
- cubefox 4y agoAgentic AIs are more useful than mere tools, therefore they will be built, and agents have motivation. The alignment problem is how to give them exactly the right motivation, such that they keep us as pets instead of killing or factory farming us. Like humans keep cats.
- mkaic 4y agoAnd what if a human tells it to control other people? What if a rogue third party terrorist group replicates OpenAI's latest and greatest in the year 2030, but explicitly tasks it with hurting people instead of helping them? I don't agree with "we will have full control over it." I'm more concerned about how much control it will have over us.