Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ...
by davidy123 on Saturday October 25, 2014 @09:37AM
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AI running human government is a Hollywood/sf fantasy, it's not something desirable within any real foreseeable future. Today technocratic governments are rejected and there is a very long tail of working out what people need that can't be determined by logical rules. It would be dangerous to go down that path because some 1950s book suggested it to us and a certain level of society went along with it. So the danger is human choice, not AI.
It is also a choice in how to give control to AI, but the species is not likely to survive an event like heat death without strong AI.
Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ...
by Houshalter on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:05PM
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A hypothetically benevolent AI would surely figure out what is "best" for us and probably redo our governments or replace them entirely with it's own rule.
Ya people might not like it at first, but what are they going to do? Fight the super powerful AI?
A good AI would provide world peace. It could take over human governments, work out conflict, stop destructive behavior etc.
>The AI it describes is not logical, there is no logical reason for AI to want to compete with other forms of life, unless it is programmed to do so.
That is the problem. An AI programmed with almost any goal, will try to capture as much resources as possible to complete that goal. E.g trying to capture as much energy from the stars as possible, to preserve itself as long as possible against heat death. Or trying to build as much redundancy as possible to prevent against disasters. Or trying to build as much computing power as possible to solve difficult problems.