I was in a discussion over the weekend with some people about whether Artificial Intelligence would usher in the renaissance or ruin of human evolution.
But AI - if it were truly an "intelligence" and not a robotic machine - would not only be simply the echo chamber of our collective ignorance and fear, paradoxes and contradictions, but one amplified beyond our ability to ever understand - especially when we are clearly so incapable of having any serious understanding of our own, and general consensus has historically always demonstrated a strong preference for believing easy lies to a hard truths.
And more importantly, it would also have to have free will. And how can you create that, when our own intelligence is so incapable of determining once and for all whether we have one or the other, or the degrees to which we operate with both.
But AI - if it were truly an "intelligence" and not a robotic machine - would not only be simply the echo chamber of our collective ignorance and fear, paradoxes and contradictions, but one amplified beyond our ability to ever understand - especially when we are clearly so incapable of having any serious understanding of our own, and general consensus has historically always demonstrated a strong preference for believing easy lies to a hard truths.
And more importantly, it would also have to have free will. And how can you create that, when our own intelligence is so incapable of determining once and for all whether we have one or the other, or the degrees to which we operate with both.
Comments
Post a Comment