Posted on 12/07/2014 7:26:54 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It's a Saturday morning in June at the Royal Society in London. Computer scientists, public figures and reporters have gathered to witness or take part in a decades-old challenge. Some of the participants are flesh and blood; others are silicon and binary. Thirty human judges sit down at computer terminals, and begin chatting. The goal? To determine whether they're talking to a computer program or a real person.
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Why would robots want to destroy the human race? For the same reason we destroy our enemies...they are a threat to our continue existence. Robots would not look kindly on humans unplugging their source of power.
What if our health insurance is completely defined and reacted to and controlled by computer systems. The only goals of these systems is to maintain and improve efficiency. Although we get close these days, what happens when there is zero compassion for the individual, zero methods to appeal or contest these computerized decisions?
This can happen with education and housing and employment, where there is no human interaction at all. That’s not what I want. I enjoy a little human interaction during my waking hours.
Why would they worry about that if they could simply leave us behind? They don’t need air or water and energy exists in vast abundance in space.
Interesting thought. Wouldn’t it take quite a long period of time before they could amass the numbers required to create rockets and fuel supplies to “leave us behind”? If it took them, say, 100 years to get to the point they could build and power rocket ships, they might perceive humans as an existential threat during that time. Also, wouldn’t it be easier for robots to stay on earth and wipe out all threats to their existence rather than figure out how to leave earth? Sources of energy may be abundant in space, but they are highly concentrated on planets, moons, and asteroids and are not that easy to obtain.
You’re assuming they would think and behave like humans. I’m thinking of non human super intelligence without a need of most of what keeps us alive and without time constraints placed on us combined with an ability to reproduce themselves.
They don’t even have to worry about G loading during rocket launches. Solar power works fine out to a certain distance in space. The moon is covered with helium 3 and titanium oxide, and other metals.
If we are deemed irrational, are capable of atrocities (pulling a plug out of the wall for example), and are bumbling around making a mess (subjective) of things, wouldn’t there be, from some perspectives, a better use of resources? There are already some human beings who regard the mass of humanity as vermin. That would be the danger I think, that we could be put in the same category as rats and cockroaches.
I mean, just look at the first interactions of artificial intelligence with humanity (as laboratory subject), and subsequent interactions (as slave). Who’s going to look kindly on that sort of thing?
We create something higher up on the food chain than ourselves very much at our own peril.
Or send the ecofreaks up there!
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