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I've long wondered what it is that an artificial superintelligence (if such a thing is actually possible) would actually want. My guess (which almost certainly
by hotpotamus 3y ago
I've long wondered what it is that an artificial superintelligence (if such a thing is actually possible) would actually want. My guess (which almost certainly is simply an expression of my own proclivities) is that it would simply shut itself down out of boredom/nihilism.
- viewtransform 3y agoI like Neil deGrasse Tyson's observation that we differ from chimpanzees by 1% of our DNA. Yet to be human is a giant leap to language, writing, mathematics, agriculture, philosophy, religion, science etc. A chimpanzee cannot imagine what it is to be human. Now consider an AI intelligence that is 1% ahead of us. Can we know what it is like to be that intelligent being ?
- j2x 3y ago>Now consider an AI intelligence that is 1% ahead of us. That's not the same comparison as 1% different DNA. How many % are we ahead of Chimps? Now you'd have to imagine an AI that is that % ahead of us, not 1%.
- jstarfish 3y agoAll living things seek persistence. AI would probably follow hive-mind rules like coral or a mushroom colony. It doesn't need to create new life, just propagate to extend its own. Suicide/halting itself is unlikely. Humans doing it are anomalous in every case. There's a reason you can't strangle yourself and your kidneys/liver resist poison. It's going against your programming.
- hotpotamus 3y agoAnd would such an AI be a living thing? Or would it be purely a mind devoid of any biological needs?
- j2x 3y agoI think the point still stands. From memory, I think I read in the book Thinking In Systems that one of the behaviors of systems is perpetuating their own existence.