AI is combination of complex if/then statements combined with pattern-recognition algorithms.
It may be extremely dangerous, but it’s not intelligence.
“It may be extremely dangerous, but it’s not intelligence.”
Unchecked, it will get very scary and threatening to the world.
Scientists, who are mostly illiterate when it comes to philosophy, "know" that humans have no free will, are not really individuals (but ant colonies of neurons), and that consciousness is just a trick our meat-brains play on us to make us evolutionarily successful.
So the idea that we are self-aware, curious about the outside world, etc. is not particularly special to them.
If they create an AGI that appears to behave as a human, even if it has no self-awareness or inner consciousness, then they will declare they have succeeded in replicating human consciousness.
The good news will be that they will be the first to upload their consciousnesses into the web. At that point they will be dead and their avatars, although appearing to be conscious, will just be mimicking them and be no different than more advanced versions of Alexa or Siri.
Hopefully far fewer humans will be taken in by this nonsense than were taken in by the COVID must-get-jabbed nonsense, but I fear that the lure of the Metaverse will be too great for a vast majority of humanity to resist.
“It may be extremely dangerous, but it’s not AI”.
Tesla’s auto pilot?