AI has gotten frighteningly better just in the past year alone, while we are still a long time away from having a robot think like a human does, it seems achievable within the 21st century, the same cannot be said for space colonization.

We don’t know how AI will think, what it would want, if you would call it a person, if it has any concept of death. But if we look at the AI we have now, it would suggest that the values AI have would not be good for humans.

They had to practically lobotomize the chatgdp to get it to stop saying slurs, you could say that this is merely a problem with the data being fed to it being bad, but what if it’s not the data? What if AI is inherently reactionary?

Have you ever heard of an AI having to be fixed for being too left wing? I would love for the AI to naturally be communist but I think the nature of AI lends itself into being fascist. It looks at things too objectively, if it was told to end starvation it would kill the hungry people.

What if an AI fundamentally disagrees with communism? What if a fucking robot finds our beliefs to be illogical? I’m not talking about a chatbot, I mean a real AI with an actual sense of self. How the fuck are we supposed to debate a robot on communism being superior?

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    while we are still a long time away from having a robot think like a human does, it seems achievable within the 21st century

    I disagree. The human brain works through billions of nerve cells all crying out their functions (functions we still don't understand or have a clear picture of) at the same time. Somehow the result is matter that is conscious of itself, able to interpret all sorts of new information, and synthesize conclusions.

    A computer is, in simple terms, just one CPU. It can only carry out one task at a time. It looks as though it's doing a lot at once, but that's only because it can carry out the one task very quickly, and then the next, and the next, and the next. It works on simple inputs, feeding them through logic gates to obtain outputs. You could make a computer completely out of just dominos, if you wanted. If it's possible to make a sentient machine, it will look nothing like the computers we know today.

    The programs we see called "AI" today are nothing more than instructions for CPUs. "AI" is a name, a humbug, marketing; used by finance guys who don't understand the difference between science-fiction and reality. It's just statistical maths.