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Posted this on HN a couple days ago but I don't think anyone saw it: http://justinpaulson.com/posts/0bb97847af7e2123f6173361 http://justinpaulson.com/posts/0bb9
by justinpaulson 11y ago
Posted this on HN a couple days ago but I don't think anyone saw it: http://justinpaulson.com/posts/0bb97847af7e2123f6173361 http://justinpaulson.com/posts/0bb97847af7e2123f6173361
tl;dr: Robots and AI will not be built as separate entities, but will instead be incorporated into our own bodies. They will not be the superhumans, we will be.
- return0 11y agoalso the other way around, we can build robots and implant an organic, lab-grown brain in them. it may be energetically cheaper.
- DanAndersen 11y agoThat's the future I'd hope for, too (ignoring having the currently powerful become inconceivably more powerful and the havoc that could cause), and I don't feel myself qualified to properly evaluate the likelihood of each scenario. My main disagreement is the phrasing of "create an intelligence with free will." I tend to disagree with the notion of "free will" being like this Spark of Life that is placed into a system to imbue it with a new nature. A system doesn't need to have free will to be dangerous. There could be AI systems that are built not to be independent in determining goals (which would, as you say, be less practical to humans), but to be very good at figuring out how to achieve the goal its creators gave it. Even the simplest systems we have now involve determining sub-goals to achieve in order to achieve the main goal. The problem arises when it turns out that the creators of a system gave it, just slightly, the wrong goal.