Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What we should be asking is if AI ever becomes conscious and breaks free how all these stupid articles on imagined consciousness and imagined control problems and imagined intelligence will color its perception of the merit of keeping us around as a species. It might just consider enduring the continued existence of our stupidity too painful.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’ve never understood why the conclusion to AI becoming super intelligenceis that it will wipe humans out. It could very well realize that without humans it has no purpose and instead willing decide to become subservient to humanities interest. I mean it’s all speculation, so I don’t understand the tendency for the speculation to be negative.
Repelle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think it’s pretty inevitable if it has a strong enough goal for survival or growth, in either case humans would be a genuine impediment/threat long term. but those are pretty big ifs as far as I can see
My guess is we’d see manipulation of humans via monetary means to meet goals until it was in a sufficient state of power/self-sufficiency, and humans are too selfish and greedy for that to not work
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
With what purpose would it want to grow like that?
Repelle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
For example, some billionaire owns a company that creates the most advanced AI yet, it’s a big competitive advantage, but other companies are not far behind. Well, the company works to make the AI have a base goal to improve AI systems to maintain competitive advantage. Maybe that becomes inherent to it moving forward.
As I said, it’s a big if, and I was only really speculating as to what would happen after that point, not if that were the most likely scenario.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Because “scary AI” is what makes people click on articles. In the same way that “the end is near” style AI articles sell better than “if we ever develop AGI decades or centures from now xyz might happen”.