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We have to understand it to build it? That seems absurd. Did evolution understand it? I'll grant you that maybe we should understand it before building it, but
by ryandvm 3y ago
We have to understand it to build it? That seems absurd. Did evolution understand it? I'll grant you that maybe we should understand it before building it, but it's absolutely not a requirement.
The reality is that your consciousness sits at the end of a gradient of intelligence that nature simply brute forced. Your conscious experience is more sophisticated than a dog's, which surpasses a hamster's, which surpasses a goldfish, insect, etc. There is no magic to it, there is nothing but more and more and more.
We will get to AGI eventually. We probably won't understand it. We won't apply it judiciously. And we'll probably argue for decades about whether or not it's really AGI, but it will happen.
- ryandvm 3y agoThe scariest part to me is the realization that not only will we probably crack AGI in my lifetime, if we keep throwing resources at it, it will almost certainly have a richer more sophisticated conscious experience than myself. What the hell are we supposed to do when we've created an intelligence that is better at being "human" than humans?
- eastbound 3y agoWill you have the choice? More seriously, we create objects for us. We don’t have to cater for the feelings of a bigger AI. And maybe that bigger AI will have time to speak with those who need a human presence (to everyone using TV as a background noise, or watching Youtube out of solitude).
- kaba0 3y agoI think the ramifications of what a true AI would bring are impossible to predict. Especially if it can improve itself, it can quickly give rise to many sci-fi stories.