Re: Keeping AI at bay (was: How to help create a singularity)

From: Robert Wasley (rpwasley@pacbell.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 17:47:35 MDT


: Lee Corbin wrote
  It's as Eliezer (usually) never tires of stating: explicit emotions
> such as these simply do not happen unless they're designed or evolved
> somehow. Probably the toughest part is leaving behind our intuition that
> where goes intelligence must go certain kinds of survival attitudes......
But artificial intelligence
> isn't necessarily evolved in the way that natural intelligence is, and so
> need not have such capabilities.
>

This is a very good point and possibly event true. Nevertheless interacting
with such
an intelligence will truely be a very alien experience and as such the value
of such intercourse
would be very limited indeed. This is the reason designers around the world
from basic
consumer software to robots are trying to make them "human" so that we feel
more comfortable
interacting with them, thus deriving more value from the experience.

Robert Wasley



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