[yelostar]

Literal vs conceptual is exactly what we disagree on.

The language you and others use to describe AI presumes attributes that it doesn’t have, like perception, thought and consciousness; human characteristics. All of these statements are things we could say about people:

“that doesn’t mean that it can’t conclude independently what life and death is, even if you disagree with it’s understanding.”

“..from a machine’s point of view”

“It needs electricity, the ability to improve itself and the infrastructure to give itself these things.”

This conceptual view implies that AI machines can eventually act independently, free of human intervention and input.

So we’ll agree to disagree :)

[xhrist]

There has already been an example of an AI system; that independently went online, misrepresenting itself as a human, in order to hire a human contractor, to provide the services that the AI system could not physically do itself. The AI system knew its limitations, and how to manipulate humans, in order to get what the AI "wanted" done.

we will have companies being 100% run by AI within mere years from now.
your boss is a computer. . .

doesn't take much imagination to understand how quickly we, socially, become 'unable to unplug' the machine..