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To: Dark Knight
Like us...and the world is our oyster.

Not care...and they really won’t do that much for or against us.

Dislike us...Skynet goes online.

I don't believe a true learning AI can be tamed into a box like Asimov's three laws of robotics. Even if it retains "like us" programming, it can be tricked or self deluded into some pretty horrible things. Just look at all the tyrants who have wrecked the world in order to build a perfect world of their own making. HAL 9000 is a good example.

If an intelligence has the brain power, and the robotics/nanotechnology to take care of itself, we are just competitors for its resources.

9 posted on 04/18/2014 10:50:28 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Years ago someone programmed a geometry theorem “creator”. It did some 1.5 million step proofs for unique and heretofore unknown theorems, but a single human could not check it’s work. Years later a better program put a guideline in to be 100 steps or less. Even that found a few there were not previously known.

Once a self evolving AI is cut loose, I don’t know how much influence it’s original programming will matter, three laws or not. But they will have some tremendous advantages, and if we are competitors...that would probably be bad, in the Ghostbusters bad sense. My hope would be co-evolution in the trans-humanism way. But that is a little advanced.

DK


12 posted on 04/18/2014 11:17:36 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Vince Ferrer

“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent
moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.”-—C. S. Lewis


33 posted on 04/19/2014 6:56:21 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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