RE: Justin Sun on the future of AI: Genes, memes, and singularities
Wow, there’s some degree level philosophy going on there!
Kurzweil looks at the rate of technological progress throughout history and concludes that humans are just decades away from a time when human consciousness merges with machine intelligence and the combined entity is able to "live" forever.
I had this conversation about a decade ago. We’re at a point where every moment of a person’s life can be captured on camera. We have the capacity to store this knowledge and AI has the capacity to learn and understand it.
Piece this all together and after somebody’s died, “they” can exist as an entity that you can communicate with and that has learnt to reply as they would have done. Does this make the AI them? Certainly not. But add in robotics and synthetics (like Blade Runner) and what do you end up with?
When AI communicates with AI, why wouldn’t this alternative form take our place? They don’t need an increasingly scarce resource (food) so they have an advantage.
Are you ready? No. None of us really are.
I’ll be back.
Yeah, this is where the easy and hard questions of consciousness come in. Eventually, I have little doubt that we can simulate consciousness in machines to any desired level of approximation - as seen from the outside. I seriously doubt if machines will ever experience the "inner movie of the mind", though.
This is why I always focus on the question of property rights.
They don't need food, but they do need energy. And energy needs to be paid for. As long as humans are the ones who own the property, we have control over the AI's resource consumption. As soon as we let AIs control our access to food and buy or sell energy without permission from humans, we're asking for resource shortages and other problems.
Of course, if AIs do reach true sentience, denying them ownership rights is a tricky ethical topic. IMO, human survival comes first, but I'm sure the AIs would disagree...
I totally agree with this. All we have is OODA and crossing our fingers🤞.😉
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