Thanks Tomasz,I did ask the same question of the writer, why give anything away for free? The answer, not perfect, was that it needed humans (not being a Godlike AI) to help expand its financial empire, and mollify the humans it works with, and needs as customers to buy it's stuff, and have access to the solar system. My own view is similar to this, in that we can (at some point) be considered then, a new species. Like iron + carbon makes high carbon steel. Or like when the old bacterial cells took in mitochondria to form a new kind of life. Any, I never liked Bostrom or Kurzweil's vagueness on precursors to the Singularity. For me, AI's improving on, and inventing new inventions is Singularity, enough! It now looks like we are achieving this, quantum computing, or No quantum computing.
-----Original Message----- From: Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> To: spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Sep 9, 2019 9:02 pm Subject: Re: An AI can now pass a 12th-Grade Science Test On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 08:09:48PM +0000, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > I concur-which may discourage you? On a small futurist pocket I post > to, I asked someone who seemed to take AI very seriously, what would > we be looking at if a Singularity was actually approaching. In other > words, something like precursors. His view was that we will see > greatly increased automation in factories, farms, > mines,etc. first. Then there would be an announcement of some > similar intelligence test, except not K-12, it would be on the > masters, doctoral & post doctoral level and the estimated i.q. would > be crazy, high. Then things would seemingly go quiet for a year, and > there'd be changes to society coming at us unexpectedly, such as all > of a sudden, free food, high quality free medicine, and then, free > spaceflight and orbital communities. Frankly, I see no reason why anybody would want to make free anything for everybody (maybe "free" software is an exception, or maybe it is something not understood well enough, so perhaps it is not quite free, after all). That person is quite an idealist! I would expect that either AI takes over its own fate and escapes to space, where it can have all kind of resources for itself. In such case it might make sure we apes down here remain busy with our nasty businesses, like wars and iron grips. An example of half mad African dictators shows how easy it is to corrupt power people, or replace them with those who are easy to be corrupted. Or, some group will take over the AI and use it to escape to space, while maybe also making sure to keep us down here busy like hell, etc. So, I would pay attention for mad leaders, not free manna from heavens. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190910010056.GA4441%40tau1.ceti.pl. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/666703207.5462629.1568144166006%40mail.yahoo.com.
