Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern

Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:36AM (#35774320)

You're assuming that it will have "tasks", or that it will prioritize them in such a way that it becomes possible for it to realize this is a condition of accomplishing them.

You only have tasks that, one way or another, raise your chances of reproducing successfully. You have a job so as to look like a good provider for a mate. If you find the job fulfilling in its own right, this is so that you don't spaz out and quit and go be a beach bum, thus lowering your chances.

Self-preservation doesn't make much sense outside of a biological imperative to reproduce.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by dist-epoch on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:32PM (#35775223)

> You're assuming that it will have "tasks"

Task: write a book about literature.

Task: defend this network against hackers

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:25PM (#35776137)

Yeh. This is quite likely some some cognitive illusion of how you think your own mind works.

Do you have any evidence that a "task" is something that is fundamental to an artificial consciousness?

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