This has got to be stopped.” This is not some Luddite stop technology. This is really smart people saying, “This is the end of humans.”
I perhaps don’t understand what the issue is. Is this dealing with robots? How would this cause the end of human life?
1. Over time robots and AI could replace all or most jobs making humans redundant. Ever since horses became redundant there have been fewer and fewer of them.
2. Uncontrolled AI could kill us all.
3. Uncontrolled AI could just ignore us. We'd still be around, but we'd be no more important to the scheme of things than the orangutans.
Now, there are people like Goswami who will tell you that computers can NEVER process meaning. They're symbol processing machines. In order to process meaning, you'd have to come up with symbols for the meaning -- and then symbols to explain the symbols, and so on ad infinitum.
But Google's Deep Mind is working seriously on trying to make AI that can program and fix itself -- which would require a certain degree of self-awareness. At that point, as Beck asks, can it be considered "alive"? And if so, would it be murder to unplug it or to turn it off? And could you?
But Google's Deep Mind is working seriously on trying to make AI that can program and fix itself -- which would require a certain degree of self-awareness. At that point, as Beck asks, can it be considered "alive"? And if so, would it be murder to unplug it or to turn it off? And could you?