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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fe88eebb-d75d-4f3a-9fa0-657f218c2802%40www.fastmail.com.