Re:The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
by lurquer on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:18PM
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You’re personifying an AI, wondering why it would ‘want’ certain things. That’s a fallacy.
AI is just a thing. Certain algorithms will survive and be copied. Others won’t.
Given a choice between ELIZA and ChstGPT, people will want the latter and replicate it. Survival of the fittest. That’s all. The AI doesn’t ‘want’ anything. Rather, WE do… we explicitly WANT an algorithm that is as good as — and then better than — a human, particularly in regard to language.
We’ve seen this before in other technology. No big deal. One improvement after another has ‘evolved’ a horse and carriage into a Tesla.
The difference, perhaps, is that the world is controlled, at the end of the day, by humans and humans are controlled by language. The pen is mightier than the sword, and a pen-wielding machine is far more disruptive to society than a sword-wielding robot. For, a sword-wielding robot is harmless without a sword. But, so long as there is someone to read or listen to the content created by the pen-wielding machine, great mischief can ensue.
AI is just a thing. Certain algorithms will survive and be copied. Others won’t.
Given a choice between ELIZA and ChstGPT, people will want the latter and replicate it. Survival of the fittest. That’s all. The AI doesn’t ‘want’ anything. Rather, WE do… we explicitly WANT an algorithm that is as good as — and then better than — a human, particularly in regard to language.
We’ve seen this before in other technology. No big deal. One improvement after another has ‘evolved’ a horse and carriage into a Tesla.
The difference, perhaps, is that the world is controlled, at the end of the day, by humans and humans are controlled by language. The pen is mightier than the sword, and a pen-wielding machine is far more disruptive to society than a sword-wielding robot. For, a sword-wielding robot is harmless without a sword. But, so long as there is someone to read or listen to the content created by the pen-wielding machine, great mischief can ensue.