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Human-like AI isn't necessary for singularity events, especially the ones that end up killing all of us. We don't need to understand consciousness or cognition
by mej10 12y ago
Human-like AI isn't necessary for singularity events, especially the ones that end up killing all of us.
We don't need to understand consciousness or cognition to create optimization processes that end up hurting (or killing) humanity.
It surprises me how many people seem ignorant of this fact.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoWhat makes me so frustrated about this argument is that we already live in a world with thousands of optimization processes that end up hurting or killing humanity. Everything from the flu to tigers. Plus, all those 'processes' are evolving through selective pressure.
- mej10 12y agoCorporations, governments, political systems, and other organizations are also optimization processes. Some of which are certainly harmful and also already hurt many people. And these are evolving through selective pressures as well. And not generally in the pro-humanity direction, more in the "preserve self at all costs" direction.
- eli_gottlieb 12y ago>What makes me so frustrated about this argument is that we already live in a world with thousands of optimization processes that end up hurting or killing humanity. Yes, we've noticed. Those are evil, too.
- mcguire 12y agoI think you're misunderstanding the use of the term "singularity". It does not mean "X will happen, after which we won't be in charge", or "...after which we'll be dead". Instead, it means that something will become so intelligent that it will be different in kind, in somewhat the same way that we are so different from gravel that gravel cannot hope to understand our behavior. An optimization process that ends up killing all of us is bad, but it's not a singularity.