Im continually maddened by peoples rigid, repetitive notions of what human life would be like in a post technological singularity world -- namely, that a superintelligent AI would most likely enslave, destroy, or disregard humanity because its relationship to us would be akin to the human relationship to, lets say, ants. Doesnt anybody else find it asinine to assume that the perceptions of a superintelligence would map to any human perceptions at all? Such comparisons seem to overlook the possibility that a an AIs superiority over us would be exponential, and that its greatness would grant it the ability to bestow value on humanity in ways that humanity does not or cannot bestow value on ants. People talk as if the only way for such an AI to manifest compassion would be if this value were somehow imprinted onto it by humans, as compassion apparently only exists as a human construct. But all of these seemingly cold and well calculated ideas about what values a super AI would or wouldnt view as useful or arbitrary are human projections based on human constructs -- and the nature of human existence post singularity is, by definition, unfathomable. These cynical assumptions are actually kind of quaint in that they assume anything we think we understand about AI now will be part of the paradigm of a post singularity world. Assuming you can know and predict enough about a superintelligent AI to conclude that such an entity would NOT manifest infinite compassion simply because our ant-like brains cant comprehend, relate to, or easily map this onto our own behaviors, is just as naive as anything.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:01:27 +0000
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