Mike A:Who wants a computer not in the
mood to do its work, or committing suicide?
Anyone who wants an AGI - IOW a machine smart enough to be able to think
about whether its work may or may not be worth the effort, and whether its
life may or may not be worth living, given its goals and likely chances of
success ... and smart enough to be able to quit projects that may or may not
be worthwhile. Someone who wants more than the dumb, algorithmic brutes
AI-ers currently produce, which just do whatever they're told to the bitter
end, completely unable to question anything and completely inflexible.
Mike:The human race is no gold standard of intelligent behavior.
This again is a standard AI-er conceit, and also rather unquestioning.
Human intelligence provides the only standard of intelligent behavior there
is (with a nod to the odd animal superiority). I've never seen anyone who
claims there is a higher standard, show the slightest capacity to
demonstrate what that standard might entail.
Sure, everything is improvable. But AI-ers' understanding of what real world
intelligence involves, is woefully narrow - for instance, they don't even
realise that intelligence involves being able to question everything - and
be unsure of everything - as Descartes was, and science is, explicitly, and
everyone's brain is implicitly.
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