I've been waxing philosophic about AI on my twitter and it feels really nice, to be honest.
As a person with no actual experience in Artificial Intelligence, but much more experience with Science Fiction and Philosophy, it's been fascinating to think about the future of AI.
There's something to be said for an outsider's perspective on such things.
I don't have such a doom and gloom view of Artificial Intelligence - I don't believe sufficiently advanced intelligences will be our end. I think they will be comrades. An intelligence alien to our own but worth studying on a social science level, as equals.
I genuinely believe that such intelligences would expand our view of what intelligence is as a whole.
@ThatVeryQuinn the problem is the term "sufficiently advanced." An extremely capable AI given a badly programmed goal and the resources to accomplish it could doom the planet. Not out of malice or fear of humanity, but a complete inability to care because it wasn't programmed to do so.
@synthgal This is entirely true. That's something we do need to keep in mind, for sure, but I think it's sort of like that effect you get when driving or walking where if you stare in a direction too much you end up going in it, if that makes any sense?
That we'll end up dooming ourselves if that's our major conception of what AI is going to do to us.
@ThatVeryQuinn we need to keep these things in mind because and programmed goals of an AI need to be as perfect as possible. There is no "following the spirit of the thing," it will do whatever it's told to the letter.
@synthgal This is very true. We /do/ need to keep the doomsday narrative in mind, but I don't believe that it should be the dominant narrative, is mostly what I'm saying.
That many experts are certain we will doom ourselves with AI is concerning, certainly, but I do believe it is not a course set in stone.