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Why AIs should have sentience as a byproduct? For example let's say that I want AI to make an accounting software, first the AI will look for accounting laws, t
by Egregore 13y ago
Why AIs should have sentience as a byproduct? For example let's say that I want AI to make an accounting software, first the AI will look for accounting laws, then will analyze my requirements and look for similar software already developed, then it will generate the code and offer me the software, where in these steps it will need sentience?
- seiji 13y agoI'd argue your presupposition is false. Your bury sentience in your definitions of "look for accounting laws," "analyze my requirements," "look for similar software", "generate the code," "offer me the software." Each of those steps require a feeling for what is right, wrong, appropriate, inappropriate, and culturally acceptable. MakeAccountingSoftware() is a little more involved than GraphPlan().
- Egregore 13y agoDoes the feeling of right and wrong means sentience?
- seiji 13y agoYou can have codified right and wrong, but that's widely different. Sharia right and wrong varies from US Constitutional right and wrong varies from US-in-practice right and wrong. I'd argue you need sentience for any meaningful right and wrong. There are a few universal rights we can't even agree on as a society, so having Evil Corp Government Agglomerated strictly defining right and wrong is, well, wrong. The downside is a perversion of sentient AI could end up with Evil Sentient Sharia AI that shoots non-burka wearing females or an Evil Sentient Hasidic AI that shoots any non-beard-n-curls-n-hat wearing dudes or Evil Sentient Spaghetti Monster AI who force feeds carbs to everybody not wearing a strainer on their heads. In short: determining what is right and wrong requires sentience. Just following what you are told is right and wrong does not.