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I'm not sure why awareness is critical to a singularity.Requiring machine intelligence to have a similar consciousness to humans is like asking submarines to sw
by hershel 13y ago
I'm not sure why awareness is critical to a singularity.Requiring machine intelligence to have a similar consciousness to humans is like asking submarines to swim like a fish, and anyways computer already have self awareness(reflection in programming languages, and some robots who use reflection to learn how to optimize movement) - it's useful but doesn't seem critical AFAIK.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoGood point. The development of some kind of strong AI is often proposed as a catalyst for a technological singularity, and I was kind of following that lead. While I agree that self-awareness may not be needed, it is the only thing I can think of that would motivate an AI to enhance itself up the exponential curve. Relying oh humans to do this probably wouldn't work (past some initial pump-priming) as they tend to get distracted by other human-scale things. On the other hand, speculating about motivation in relation to an AI may be misleading anyway...
- hershel 13y agoThe general motivation behind the improvement of technologies is money and power given to those who control them. This could work for AI.