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meatbot rated 8 months ago- woah. When will an AI system be smarter than the whole human race combined? Stop and think about that: smarter than the whole human race. What does that mean? What factors underly the creation of such a god? The article gives a nice layout of various opinions from all over the AI and computing fields. Many links to external sources are listed throughout. Perhaps not the best read if you haven't heard of the singularity yet.
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- Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? in Reason Online by Ronald Bailey
By 2030, or by 2050 at the latest, will a super-smart artificial intelligence decide to keep humans around as pets? Will it instead choose to turn the entire Earth, including the messy organic bits like us, into computronium? Or is there a third alternative? Computer scientist Stephen Omohundro argued that self-improving AIs would be ultra-rational economic agents, basically examples of homo economicus. Such AIs would exhibit four drives; efficiency, self-preservation, acquisition, and creativity. Regarding efficiency AIs optimizing their resource use would turn to nanotechnology and virtualization wherever possible. Self-preservation involves protecting its utility function from death which it would do by building in redundancy and embedding itself in mutually defensive social relations. The drive to acquire more resources means that AIs could be dangerously competitive with humans. If Omohundro is right, there are good reasons to doubt that an AI that is a relentless utility maximizer will be friendly to less than perfectly efficient humanity. Given these big concerns about how super smart AIs might treat humanity, should they be created at all? Famously, former Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy declared that they are too dangerous and that we should relinquish the drive to create them. Charles Harper, senior vice president of the Templeton Foundation, suggested there was a "dilemma of power." The dilemma is that "our science and technology create new forms of power but our cultures and civilizations do not easily create parallel capacities of stewardship required to utilize newly created technological powers for benevolent uses and to restrain them from malevolent uses." Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? I more and more often observe myself wondering if the collapse of our late modern systems (economic, financial, scientific, technologic and other), in finale, is not the best thing that could befall humanity. We are, like automatons, driving on a freeway leading to "we don't know where" and, as automatons, we are never questioning if this "we don't know where" is somewhere we really like or want to go. Its like our minds had been hijacked. By by what could they have been hijacked? I suggest that our minds have been hijacked by what drives our totalitarian modernity to be the most efficacious tyranny humanity has ever been the prisoner of. But what drives modernity? The only valid answer is the logic of capital or the rationality that the use of capital imposes to its holders. We are automatons driven by that rationality and it should thus not come as a surprise then that the automatons we build should be at our image.... self-improving AIs would be ultra-rational economic agents, basically examples of homo economicus. ...there are good reasons to doubt that an AI that is a relentless utility maximizer will be friendly to less than perfectly efficient humanity..
- Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? in Reason Online by Ronald Bailey
