"My argument and conjecture has always been, that once machines become self-aware (just before or just after) their learning capabilities will become incredibly exponential in mere seconds."
Can you elaborate on this for me? I've done a lot of thinking on vastly improved AI in robots and slowly I have built an imaginary robot in my mind into a very sophisticated "machine" that essentially is a great servant to all of mankind. You're talking about a great leap forward that I have not thought of. Once I understand your thoughts on this I think I can move forward faster.
Hi JwhDenver
I'm sure you know WAYYY more about it than I do. I'm using creative thinking and imagination based on what I THINK I know about AI, upcoming.
I imagine a combo electro-chemical processing with virtually instantanous speed. Now, such an explosion of self-awareness, followed by a RELATIVELY godlike knowledge - requires a lot of obvious prerequisites by the designers. Such an exponential processing event could move in millions of defined, finite, segments (one purposeful segment of knowledge, the "Joshua" theory) - or be dynamic and broad (the "Lawnmower Man" theory).... or, result in a locking loop that crashes the whole matrix (brain, or system) down.
So, take for example, the super chem system I describe above - and suppose a billion logic processes were activated (i.e., like scientists examining all those lines of DNA code by hand, taking years). The chembot extrapolates the billion, or million logic query processes and (by PURE luck), becomes self-aware (to a degree the techs standing nearby wouldn't even realize). The system will or won't do any number of things for itself. This, then goes to my "Borg" theory... my best guess, the chembot would likely acquire information to one driven end or path. I doubt that the techs witnessing all of this will ever have a chance to learn what that path is (or was).
Notice I use a lot of science FICTION in my examples above - movies? I'm a Star Trek hack who just thinks about stuff like this.
PS - I'm in Denver, too! Best, Bill