Has anybody asked these AI machines how to bring world peace or end hunger?
Just wondering.
There are pretty simple answers to those questions - but they bring in what would probably be called a ‘spiritual’ influence, which people developing AI, probably correctly, don’t consider ‘science’ or ‘logic’.
A computer can only consider what ‘could be’ under circumstances it has been taught to understand. I doubt anybody is teaching it ‘love thy neighbor’ or ‘do unto others’ - and if they did, that would be dangerous, too.
So the machine ‘intelligence’ is left seeing everything in material terms, and as a ‘zero-sum game’ - as mere logic necessarily sees it.
Machines won’t be taught to understand otherwise, until enough people do.
Or, was the last election stolen?
The simplest answer to both is “kill all living things.”
Maaaaaaybe you don’t want to ask it that question.
Perhaps regardless of how one defines "peace" or "hunger", one possible answer will always be, "reduce the population to zero".
It will be important, then, for AI to recognize that the question may have a more beneficial answer. That will not happen by accident.
A similar question for AI might be; "How can we eliminate racism?" AI might just decide that having more than one race is counter-productive.
Anyone on this thread who hasn't seen "The Forbin Project" needs to see it. Great little movie.
The AI replied that it could easily solve both problems in a jiffy.
All it wanted was the nuclear launch codes.
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