AI becoming “sentient” is a bogeyman under the bed that doesn’t exist.
they’re trying to make people that that people are just machines, and thus machines can = people.
The eternal soul, the self, is the source of consciousness, life itself. Only living beings have consciousness.
They are fearmongers trying to terrify people into paralysis and submissiom.
We are more than a meat bag.
Speaking as someone in software engineering since 1986, here’s my view on AI.
It’s only as good as the programming. Languages like LISP and ADA are completely over-blown and not some super sinister or magic language. It’s just another language.
Machines learning on their own, which is a program creating and updating it’s own code is a pipe dream. It’s like string theory. People get bored and create theories and then get funding to make it happen but in 30 years it just hasn’t happened. And it’s not about computing power.
The only way it will get out of control is if someone programs it to do so. That’s in nobody’s self interest.
-SB
There is nothing human about AI intelligence.
But an AI intelligence becoming so smart that it's able to make better prototypes of itself in nanoseconds would probably result in the end of the human race.
The late Stephen Hawking, in a Reddit AMA on artificial intelligence, said when AI entities start designing better AI entities than humans can, it “ultimately results in machines whose intelligence exceeds ours by more than ours exceeds that of snails.”
Visionary British mathematician Alan Turing, in a paper dated 1951, wrote this:
“There would be no question of the machines dying, and they would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
This type of AI should be banned world wide but things are already out of control. This might be a pipe dream to some but we already have quantum computers that are exponentially faster than conventional computers.