normen wrote: ↑18 Feb 2018
bxbrkrz wrote: ↑18 Feb 2018
Yes. Keyword: humanity. AI, if Musk and Hawkins are right, will be writing our next chapter in Dystopian 2.0. I trust Google 100%
So what's for dinner? GMO yellow or GMO "glowing in the dark" blue?
Well for AI I think people like Musk and especially Kurzweil (despite his great Synths
) over-estimate what they can do with their technology. There is absolutely zero indication that this stuff will at some point become sentient or conscious. Its networks that can recognize patterns, alright. Thats what our brain does for us as well but theres no indication that a whole bunch of pattern recognition makes up a conscious being. Even the simplest worm, simulated down to every atom and quark we know of doesn't "live". You can prod it electrically and it jerks but not more.
I see it more like a new "global prefrontal cortex" for us, it will extend us - like it already does, we are talking to each other sitting on different ends of the world, exchanging opinions
At some point we will feel how hungry the whole of humanity is because we are connected to a network that prepares that info for us and literally brings it to our attention
Edit: Theres a way where you could look at humanity as the earths central nervous system. Just like the brain it's pretty selfish, it demands all the last resources for itself (just like the brain when we die) but maybe we were just going though puberty and now we somehow arrive in adulthood, thinking about the whole body and the consequences of our actions.
I love Musk's cheerleading us into believing we don't need to wait a 1000 years to open a Tesla store on Mars. I loved the name Kurzweil more than I love my K2000 (already sold to Young Chang back then).
Musk believes the universe is a computer simulation. Kurzweil is not ready to die anytime soon, or ever (dude is getting younger and younger looking).
Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum
They believe (Kurzweil et al.) they know what consciousness is. They believe they can recreate it with codes. We use our consciousness for a lot of things. To judge people, put men on the moon, kill millions, asking if God exists, describe the texture of ice cream, remembering a long forgotten childhood memory from a scent, pass an exam, believe actors are not fake crying when receiving an Oscar, to have a sense of humor or derision, lying for a good cause (my belief is true, yours obviously evil). We use it to argue that life has no meaning, and argue about it more, impervious to the irony.
They believe they can code all of this and will use their consciousness (and everything they understand as life) as the foundation for their AI. And that might be the problem: the AI will not have a consciousness (Qualia), because the "hard problem of consciousness" has yet to be simulated, measured, compared and stored first. A crow is smarter than a dog when solving a very difficult puzzle, but a dog has a bigger brain. Could it be that something else is in charge of Qualia, just not the brain? A neurosurgeon will tell you no, a psychologist will tell you no.
It is most likely Dystopian 2.0 will happen because the AI will lack consciousness, than having one.
We exchange opinions
publicly if we are allowed to, based on our regional laws, feelings and culture. They use the little AI they have now to nudge opinions, erase discussions, help arrest humans with the wrong thoughts, so not to lose a big market. Is this the kind of "extension" we want?
Our ego put us in the middle of everything. In the center of the universe, or the nervous system of Gaia. It is hard to think differently, or maybe impossible. We push our experience into inanimate objects or animals, sometimes believing they talk back and share our joy or pain. They might, but we don't know how, since they are across, on the other side of the mirror.
I have decided yelllow GMO tastes better.