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>"Crucially, this capacity is narrow and specific. Today’s AI produces the semblance of intelligence through brute number-crunching force, without any great int

>"Crucially, this capacity is narrow and specific. Today’s AI produces the semblance of intelligence through brute number-crunching force, without any great interest in approximating how minds equip humans with autonomy, interests and desires." I'm not sure why we would want AI to have autonomy, interest, and desire? It's almost like solving a problem that doesn't exist.

DanAndersen 11y ago
Phrasing it this way leads to the implication of autonomy, interest, and desire being like these modular things, sort of Aristotelian "Things" that are bestowed upon minds, like Star Trek's Data putting in "the Emotion Chip." If you build a drone navigation system that can reroute based on weather conditions rather than being a manually human-guided remote control bot, you've given it some degree of "Autonomy." Give it a goal (to get to a destination with minimal fuel costs) and now it has some limited "Desire." Give its camera face processing algorithms to deliver an item to a specific person? Now there's "Interest." These aren't going to be characteristics that we plug into a program in a Frankenstein-like manner, but just actions and behaviors, rooted in practical code, that will from the outside resemble things we call autonomy etc. when talking about each other.
- giltleaf 11y ago
  I see what point you are trying to make and would just say I'm not worried about plugging these things into a drone delivering parcels while rerouting through difficult weather. However, I still don't see why you would want to take it beyond that. I imagine that some people do in fact want to put in "the Emotion Chip," and I still have the same question; why? I don't think human desire is the same as goal setting or that facial recognition is the same as interest. That's good programming, what I'm talking about is something different.

DanAndersen 11y ago

Phrasing it this way leads to the implication of autonomy, interest, and desire being like these modular things, sort of Aristotelian "Things" that are bestowed upon minds, like Star Trek's Data putting in "the Emotion Chip." If you build a drone navigation system that can reroute based on weather conditions rather than being a manually human-guided remote control bot, you've given it some degree of "Autonomy." Give it a goal (to get to a destination with minimal fuel costs) and now it has some limited "Desire." Give its camera face processing algorithms to deliver an item to a specific person? Now there's "Interest." These aren't going to be characteristics that we plug into a program in a Frankenstein-like manner, but just actions and behaviors, rooted in practical code, that will from the outside resemble things we call autonomy etc. when talking about each other.

giltleaf 11y ago
I see what point you are trying to make and would just say I'm not worried about plugging these things into a drone delivering parcels while rerouting through difficult weather. However, I still don't see why you would want to take it beyond that. I imagine that some people do in fact want to put in "the Emotion Chip," and I still have the same question; why? I don't think human desire is the same as goal setting or that facial recognition is the same as interest. That's good programming, what I'm talking about is something different.