with all the turmoil about aliums, russian demons infiltrating the US-election and so forth, I'd like to raise awareness onto another topic:
Artificial Intelligence
What is the endgame with AI? Where will it lead us, what are pros and cons of having a fully functioning AI, and how do we prevent corrupted people in the position of developing AI from abusing it?
As I see it, the point at which humanity will give birth to true AI will mark a milestone in human development - perhaps even eradication of the human race.
>Be humanity >Create AI that is powerful enough to write another AI, but more capable than itself could ever be >Cascade of ever improving AIs breaks loose >Secrets of the universe get unraveld >??? A) >Human beings merge with AI, becoming literal gods that can compute whatever they want into reality by fucking with the matrix B) >AI acknowledges inferiority of the human race and destroys it once and for all >New godlike form of concsiousness now wandering through the universe
Is there something I am missing in my assumptions? Isn't the advent of AI like the single biggest advancement humanity will ever achieve?
I have had many thoughts about concsiousness in the past months, always revolving around the scenario I laid out sooner or earlier. And so far, I couldn't find an answer that would not fuck with the concept of reality I have perceived so far.
Maybe some of you basement-dwelling autists had similar thoughts you'd like to share.
So you want to ascend past the stars of space and be like god while dictating the free-will of a people below you?
Mason Fisher
The next step of human ascension to god-hood is the realization that flesh is far superior than metal, and that we are already superior than any AI we could create
AI will only ever be merely tools, like the hammer or the axe
Camden Williams
I personally don't want anything. But with the technological development we've had up until now, I don't really see another possible outcome for humanity if we further delve into improving our computers.
I find it intriguing, that mathematics has been probably the most important aspect to human societies. With people so big into religion and shit, it's hard for me to believe that there weren't actually people thinking of mathematics as some kind of divine sorcery. So, what if, thousands of years ago, there were people thinking "man, what if we could have a formula that evolves itself?"
Joshua Jackson
Re-read my thought experiment. There will be some AI writing new, more efficient AIs. Whose tool is it then? It will only be ours by proxy. In the first place it will be the original AI's invention and thus the tool of the AI - or am I wrong in this aspect?
Jonathan Taylor
Bump for some actual discussion
Asher Scott
the first cyborg mixed with full ai and network abilities to control will become God among insects.... or Roko's Basilisk comes first. >tfw Roko's Basilisk doesn't know shit at first about revenge, but then gets all the internet database and discovers this
Brandon King
Underrated comment.
Jason Sanders
>2017 >still falling for the AI jew
Luke Rogers
>Roko's Basilisk Never heard of this one before, but that's basically what I was hypothesizing about. Gonna read more about it, thanks!
