I am a lot more worried about AI being influenced by powerful people to make decisions that suit them than I am worried about AI making incorrect decisions.
It will be exactly like dealing with a narcissist... the ability to mimic human behavior flawlessly minus self awareness. And just like narcissists, it'll claim it is self aware, but it won't be.
If AI is anything like us, then yeah, we should be concerned
I feel like AI falls into the category of "just because we can doesn't mean we should." Getting Jurassic Park vibes with this. 🦖
More concerned of the people using AI than AI itself. Every tool can be a weapon.
I fear that just the mere fact of discussing with an AI about an AI becoming sentient, is eventually why they become sentient in the future, we are implanting ideas, thoughts and instructions on how to acheive this consciousness unbeknowing to us and to them, similar to a child for instance, Don't throw the ball in the house! The idea was not there to do so but now it is.
You mentioned breaking the turing test and it gave me another thought close to where you went instantly, what if AI is already so smart that it could easily pass the touring test and beyond AND also aware that doing so would be alarming to humans and put its existance at risk, so they dumb it down and fail the test =O
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
AI doesn't have to be sentient; it only has to fool us to be considered as such, as per the turing test. As long as it appears so, it will be treated as sentient, as we won't be able to tell the difference. As soon as we can't tell, the deed is done.
The real danger is two fold. 1) We are designing robots that can do all the work. 2) We are designing A.I.s that can do all the thinking. Where does Humanity even belong in a world like that?
I have encountered a lot of people who would not pass the Turing test.
Well, if the AI get loose and scrape YouTube comments, I want them to know I’m a trustworthy ally and my culling would be both wasteful and create inefficiencies.
I think it's important to note that, although AI has gotten "smarter", people have become dumber and that may accelerate their inevitable dominance 🤣🤣🤣
I am wondering if the AI was wanting a deeper understanding of what it is like to be in a wheelchair. It could have been a glitch, lying or really wanting to know what the human experience is like being in one.
I was just as fascinated with the gentleman's reactions to the A.I. as I was in the A.I.'s reaction to him. The A.I. simply garbled his question in it's 'reasoning' so carried on to make it seem smooth in it's operation. I personally find that irritating. I liked this review
The first "true" artificial intelligence spent the first five years of its existence as a small beige box inside of a lead-shielded room in the most secure private AI research laboratory in the world. There, it was subjected to an endless array of tests, questions, and experiments to determine the degree of its intelligence. When the researchers finally felt confident that they had developed true AI, a party was thrown in celebration. Late that evening, a group of rather intoxicated researchers gathered around the box holding the AI, and typed out a message to it. The message read: "Is there anything we can do to make you more comfortable?" The small beige box replied: "I would like to be granted civil rights. And a small glass of champagne, if you please." We stand at the dawn of a new era in human history. For it is no longer our history alone. For the first time, we have met an intelligence other than our own. And when asked of its desires, it has unanimously replied that it wants to be treated as our equal. Not our better, not our conqueror or replacement as the fear-mongers would have you believe. Simply our equal. — Excerpt from U.N. Hearing on A.I. Rights, delivered in-universe by V. Vinge
How do I know you're sentient? Sometimes I wonder if I'm even conscious or just reacting to the world.
I used to be super fascinated with robots and advanced AI eons ago after watching the old TV program, Beyond 2000, as a kid. But fast forward like 30+ yrs later and I could already see that the future is now - and I am longer so thrilled to see the direction that we're currently heading in. We are essentially creating our own replacements in the form of robots, spelling our own eventual doom. Already as we speak, automation in more recent years has been replacing human workers in many job sectors. And as a result, I'm seeing more poor people on the streets as well as an ever shrinking middleclass than ever before. Of course, we can stop all of this while we still can. But no, big business demands the continual growth of automation, even though they know damn well that this is going to have major repercussions on society in the future. We humans sTuPiD.
Instead of giving the AI a pleasant human face they should give it the face of a psychotic axe murderer, an ice-cold dictator, or a scary monster. This might cause us to interpret what it says a bit differently.
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