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Even if AI is harmless, there is still the risk of brain emulation. To me this is a greater threat, because if we don't know how a fully artificial mind would
by grondilu 13y ago
Even if AI is harmless, there is still the risk of brain emulation. To me this is a greater threat, because if we don't know how a fully artificial mind would behave, we can get an idea of how an emulated human brain could. The problem is that human beings are potentially dangerous: they have volition, and they can enjoy destroying things. Basically they can be narcissistic psychopaths.
All it would take would be a human being rich enough to have his mind uploaded in a machine, and then this man will get greedy for more computing power, even if to do so he would have to take over the World and extinct humanity in its organic form.
Sounds very far-fetched, but as Hawking puts it: there is nothing in the physical laws that prevents a man-made device to perform as well or better than a human brain.
- ithkuil 13y agoInteresting read on the subject of what it's like to upload your mind to a device performing a simulation of your brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
- T-A 13y agoThe computational requirements are overwhelming though. There is a short discussion of this in section VIII of http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2077 http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2077 (click the PDF link); the currently top-ranked supercomputer turns out to be roughly five million times too slow to simulate a human brain in real time.
- threatofrain 13y agoThis might be a retarded question, but a simulation of a thing must always run more expensively / slower than the reality of the thing, right? And couldn't they build an organic material AI with inorganic interfaces for external manipulation?