Why AI Will Never Rule the World (Digital Trends Interview with Luke Dormehl)

Call it the Skynet hypothesis, Artificial General Intelligence, or the advent of the Singularity - for years, AI experts and non-experts alike have fretted (and, for a small group, celebrated) the idea that artificial intelligence may one day become smarter than humans.
According to the theory, advances in AI - specifically of the machine learning type that’s able to take on new information and rewrite its code accordingly - will eventually catch up with the wetware of the biological brain. In this interpretation of events, every AI advance from Jeopardy-winning IBM machines to the massive AI language model GPT-3 is taking humanity one step closer to an existential threat. We’re literally building our soon-to-be-sentient successors.
Interview in Digital Trends, September 25, 2022 at: www.digitaltre...

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The concept of modelling software systems after the biological brain is a form of "emergence" theory - in the sense that if we duplicate the complexity, the same properties we see in the brain (consciousness, free will, desire, etc) will emerge even if we don't understand the underlying mechanisms. The critique being made here is since we don't understand how the brain works, or what consciousness is and therefore we cannot model it.
However, this is no longer a compelling critique of AI. It doesn't really matter how the brain works, or if machines are sentient - what matters is can they perform definable tasks as well or better than a human. The answer to this question seems to be obviously "yes" - and it's not unrealistic to assume that sometime in the future there will be no cognitive task that a human can perform that a machine cannot perform better or at least as well. It remains to be seen if this will be a net positive or net negative for humanity - I can certainly envision both outcomes.
Trying to replicate a human mind or consciousness in a machine seems like a pointless endeavour to me personally - since a machine does not need that to do cognitive tasks. The "Terminator" discussion is a good illustration of this - the Terminator doesn't need to be conscious to complete its task - it just needs a set of instructions - and the average person does not care about these philosophical distinctions between will and autonomy (or lack thereof).

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Touche

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Have some hard times fully grasping the details as well but indeed a fascinating book

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God who created the Heaens and the earth, will always be in control.

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