I suspect AI is already past insect-level for some tasks, e.g. image recognition and language understanding. The number of parameters in a state-of-the-art huge language model or in something like DALL-E 2 means that these are probably already more complex than an insect nervous system. I might be wrong.
In any case, what I don't understand about the supposed solution to the "Fermi paradox" is: why would they expect technological-life evolution to stagnate? In fact I think this reinforces the Fermi paradox. Why aren't we being visited by alien AIs? Of course the usual hypothesis apply: the universe is too young, life is to rare, etc etc Telmo Am Mi, 24. Aug 2022, um 19:28, schrieb smitra: > Thanks for sharing! My comment on this article: > > https://nyti.ms/3dQoxqU#permid=120043436 > > "It is inevitable that AI systems will end up becoming good enough to > run the economy, repair and reproduce themselves. Biology shows us that > this does not require highly intelligent systems. As things stand now, > even insects outperform our best AI systems, but then we may not even > need insect-level intelligence to fully automatize our economy. > > This development is then driven by economic growth, it's not something > that's easy to regulate. Companies will use whatever technology is > available to reduce costs and to get to higher profits. The current > climate crisis shows just how hard it is to regulate the rather simple > process of our use of energy to reduce CO2 emissions. > > When in the future the economy is run by autonomous machines that > maintain and copy each other while producing all the stuff we consume, > there will exists a new machine biology besides the original biology. > It's then inevitable that the machine biology will not be fully > compatible with the original biology. Toxic compounds are likely to be > produced. > > The problem we'll then face is that we'll have even less power to > mitigate such problems than we have now when dealing with our CO2 > emissions. It's then likely that the new machine biology will destroy > most of the original biology. > > All intelligent life in the universe likely ends in this way. The > takeover by machines with insect-level intelligence or less, then > explains why the galaxy hasn't already been colonized (the so-called > Fermi Paradox)." > > Saibal > > On 24-08-2022 14:39, John Clark wrote: >> Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a >> subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a >> subscription. >> >> We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting >> >> We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s >> time to start taking its potential and risks seriously. >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/ai-technology-progress.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DFDmweiPgYCIiG_EPKarskbtp2wzmQRNlGNLggVblq1OhQJUF2UE-ovp6A0twjEhkClLiSDCkwzo6fGvcx6yPrZW20b710ybPitBzZdWLoUKLA1XV2IRI1qJpmaV372SYKlazAReYl3cJsnqt0XuAMTjgFbCCLv_TjGk8-bI3ANkeAn1FwD-JJWjjTnsqe4qYAdWhRClHHRXB44wUs-Y8WeYNXbOukcUlWKIepiq4RC2doMI6iG5YwIoDUnL9gurLMwgeevnYkS2GsPvx_F8Tqd-ALMQ&smid=em-share >> >> >> -- >> 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/CAJPayv21vyY7ZgNzkcVQ1wYr_6dxYq5LyveYMZZrvkig%2B_oV6A%40mail.gmail.com >> [1]. >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv21vyY7ZgNzkcVQ1wYr_6dxYq5LyveYMZZrvkig%2B_oV6A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > -- > 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/468ea47509d9246593730ed39b099f9c%40zonnet.nl. -- 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/fe88eebb-d75d-4f3a-9fa0-657f218c2802%40www.fastmail.com.
