(October 12, 2018 at 9:33 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Any specific motivation or desire, or any behavior driving mechanism, that an AI can have has to be an artifact of specific circuitry or firmware that entered its behavior driving mechanism in the process by which such mechanism came to be. No specific motivation or desire will arise just because. The notion that consciousness will naturally arise with complexity and with consciousness will come desire with which we can either identify or recognize is just I’ll founded mushy brained wish thinking bullshit, good for Star Trek caliber sciFI. Not for intelligent consideration.
Say what AI will do, and you need to explain how the AI came to want to do it.
You just drained all the joy out of this topic!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
