RE: Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
November 4, 2016 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2016 at 5:50 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 4, 2016 at 5:43 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 5:22 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: No not faulty. Like why do people kill ants? Because most people have more important things on their minds and don't give a shit. They're pests.
We're talking about a distant future where AI is far more smart than us, has a mind of its own and has its own interests.
No one worried about Einstein going on a killing spree and he had a working body. Certainly no one contemplates the possibility of Stephen Hawking doing it. He's a brain in a wheel chair. Or to use Sam Harris's example, John von Neumann. We each have our own interests, our own mind and some of us are smarter than others. So? What's going to happen?
Our intellect compared to ants is a LOT smarter than Einstein's or Hawking's compared to us.
We're talking about an AI so intelligent that it would have no reason to give a shit about us and see us as pests just like a lot of people do with ants.
Why would our ambitions and existence be even remotely important to an intelligence so beyond us that it considered us nothing but a pest?
We're not talking about anything going on a killing spree. We're not talking about robots remember.
