On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 5:19:02 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 9:47:42 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> When I took a series of classes in Artificial Intelliegence at UCLA in >> the '70s the professor introducing the material of the first class >> explained that, "Intelligence is whatever a computer can't do....yet." >> >> Brent >> > > The fear of AI is that computers could eventually exhibit a characteristic > reminiscent of "will" and exhibit it maliciously against humans. I suppose > for you that's not a problem since, IIRC, you deny the existence of will. > AG >
For a computer to be intelligent, and maybe even acquire some form of self awareness, it must be able to re-script its data stack and even some of its programming. The recent gains in AI have begun to push into this territory. This would require some subtle work as this becomes more developed. The system can't becomes trapped in self-referential loops, but it also may in time require these be employed. A truncated form of self-reference, one that diagonalizes a finite list, may permit a system to "pop out" of its knowledge base. The system may then acquire unprovable truths in a partially stochastic way. We obviously can't have systems that require an infinite amount of information to perform Godelian trick, but we might be able to approximate it. I suspect AI might learn how to become self aware by being interfaced with human brains. 50 years from now I think much of humanity will have their brains interlinked. This will mean that consciousness will no longer be a private thing and that AI systems will acquire it as well. Where things go from there is anyone's guess. Maybe the machines will steal our consciousness and then discard us as useless. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
