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We don't know for sure that AI would be conscious. Teleporting super intelligent zombies around isn't all that interesting.
by eternityforest 3y ago
We don't know for sure that AI would be conscious. Teleporting super intelligent zombies around isn't all that interesting.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoHere's the existentialism I was looking for :) I'm not sure how we can verify that empirically. Current LLM AI will hallucinate about the feelings it "has" and argue why it is a person, but only because it was trained on human language. The more human we make something seem, the more we blur the line until we might have a day where people upload their consciousness permanently without knowing if "they" will wake up inside the computer or just some copy of themselves that answers all the "don't kill me, I'm a real person" questions will wake up in the computer. Human software is still intrinsically tied to human hardware, so this seems like it would be far easier to create zombies than true humans, even if the checksum matches after an interstellar transmission.
- bluecheese452 3y agoHaving my consciousness be trapped in a computer sounds terrifying. Like being completely paralyzed but still conscious.
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoI recommend reading a book called "Permutation City" which exposure that feeling.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoFrom a "future harm" perspective, if I have a full, functional backup of me somewhere, who's to say someone doesn't hack it down the line and torture copies of me? What's stopping an AI from torturing my backup because I didn't help fund AI research? Me never getting uploaded in the first place - that's what's stopping it :)
- moffkalast 3y agoWell can you prove you're conscious? I'm just gonna assume you're not otherwise. That's the kind of benefit of the doubt we'll be giving AI apparently.