What is Artificial Intelligence?
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- JamesOfSeattle
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For now, and we will assume computer = computer running a specific program.
But they will. Already some computers [robots] hunger for power and go find a power station when their charge is low. Sex bots, when they become more interactive, will have sex drives. (Users will want to be desired.) And ambition may not be the right word. It’s kinda hard to see the utility in creating a robot that compares itself with other robots and is satisfied when it judges itself superior to other robots. Seems more likely that we might create something that simply wants to keep improving.Computers have no hungers or sex drives or ambitions to be superior to other machines
Seems like this one is to be avoided.or be interested in commanding the world.
They could also have wonderful unexpected consequences. Personally, I’m hopeful.It has to be directed to solve problems but those directions, like the problems with Aladdin's lamp, may have disastrous unexpected consequences.
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The first one to pop into my mind is survival instinct.
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The first god, perhaps,
Thrust out of the black
Star filled sky
As a fist of fire.
It thumped the earth
With nickel iron
And set the field aflame.
Men puzzled eyes into its surface
And a mouth agape.
A clever carpenter
Grew a body for the head.
Very quickly, an interpreter
Discovered how to tell
Its nickel iron thoughts.
Good interpreters translated well
And men thrived.
Mad interpreters made men
Do strange things.
It took centuries for good sense
To see the god as stone and wood.
Men missed this god,
So a clever carpenter
In silicon and plastic
Is putting one together
More satisfactory.
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This is philosophy not science fiction. When it comes to survival instinct, nothing has changed since Turing. AI does not have any sense or instinct. It would be a misunderstanding of AI to suggest that this is a meaningful suggestion.
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It about attending to the thread.
What IS artificial intelligence.
NOT what might it become.
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Given that no one seem to entirely know what AI is, skating around the tangential aspects of the problem would seem fair enough.
Also, Hobbses, your Turing statement is out of date. AI cold callers can now fool people into believing they are speaking with a person. In a demonstration, with a taped phone call played to an audience, the crowd laughed at the realism and appropriateness of the machine's strategic ums and ahs and pretence to be spending time thinking.
It's still just a simulation, of course - black inside.
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In what way is any of this a response to what I am saying?Greta wrote: ↑May 13th, 2018, 5:49 pm Amazed how you can still do the tough stuff on forums, Jan. By 92 I'll be lucky if my bones have not already decomposed
Given that no one seem to entirely know what AI is, skating around the tangential aspects of the problem would seem fair enough.
Also, Hobbses, your Turing statement is out of date. AI cold callers can now fool people into believing they are speaking with a person. In a demonstration, with a taped phone call played to an audience, the crowd laughed at the realism and appropriateness of the machine's strategic ums and ahs and pretence to be spending time thinking.
It's still just a simulation, of course - black inside.
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ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑May 14th, 2018, 4:37 pm [amazon=][/amazon]In what way is any of this a response to what I am saying?Greta wrote: ↑May 13th, 2018, 5:49 pm Amazed how you can still do the tough stuff on forums, Jan. By 92 I'll be lucky if my bones have not already decomposed :)
Given that no one seem to entirely know what AI is, skating around the tangential aspects of the problem would seem fair enough.
Also, Hobbses, your Turing statement is out of date. AI cold callers can now fool people into believing they are speaking with a person. In a demonstration, with a taped phone call played to an audience, the crowd laughed at the realism and appropriateness of the machine's strategic ums and ahs and pretence to be spending time thinking.
It's still just a simulation, of course - black inside.
Which is wrong. It was only a few posts ago.Hobbes Choice wrote:... nothing has changed since Turing
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The people designing AIs will including anything that gives the AI computing power. Hence they will mimic other aspect of animal intelligence (that is including humans). They have experimented with using rat brain portions to compute, they will model using other materials that still model animal and human brains. Since they currently are trying to create AIs that learn and are motivated to learn, there are good reasons to assume that AIs will be made in any way that enhances their speed and scope of learning. Once you recreate brains, essentially, I think it is hardly science fiction - which in any case has often been correct about what is coming - to consider the possibility that AIs will be like us in a number of ways and not simply super enhanced laptops. We now know that our minds depend on an interaction between the emotional and computational aspects to be effective learners and decision makers. Current neuroscience is not lost on the AI makers and unfortunately they are quite prepared to do anything, since AI offers both power and money.ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑May 13th, 2018, 12:01 pmThis is philosophy not science fiction. When it comes to survival instinct, nothing has changed since Turing. AI does not have any sense or instinct. It would be a misunderstanding of AI to suggest that this is a meaningful suggestion.
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