My AI Timelines Have Sped Up

Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by randomdata on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:16AM (#24279056)

It seems feasible for us humans to make media directed for dolphins, but why?

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Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by esrauch on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:17PM (#24284636)

Why do humans make media directed at other humans? There's some intrinsic and extrinsic motivation that makes it so, and those conditions aren't met by making media for dolphins.

I understand the hypothetical dangers of an AGI with the "wrong" reward function where "wrong" includes "like humans in terms of species-tribalism and intelligence-smugness", but I don't actually see a media generator AI necessarily having human-esque identity that you're suggesting.

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Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by stickfigure on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:05AM (#24279621)

We make bird baths and dog parks and cat trees and hummingbird feeders and hamster wheels... I'm sure if dolphins expressed an obvious love of cinema, somebody would make movies for them.

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Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by randomdata on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:39AM (#24281845)

> We make bird baths and dog parks and cat trees and hummingbird feeders and hamster wheels...

For the entertainment of the creator. Maybe you are right that AGI will be entertained by watching humans turn into vegetables as they aimlessly watch a screen for hours at a time, but I suspect not.

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Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by stickfigure on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:18PM (#24286180)

I think you're oversimplifying human motives here. A lot of humans genuinely care about the well-being of pets and wildlife, even when they're not in sight. Look how much effort was put into reviving the California Condor.

Maybe let's hope that a hypothetical AGI finds us "cute".

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Re:My AI Timelines Have Sped Up by randomdata on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:34AM (#24292595)

> Look how much effort was put into reviving the California Condor.

AGI might have reason to keep us alive, sure, but why create media for us? Given our current trajectory, AGI will be very energy hungry. How will it justify using that energy for the sake of human entertainment?

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