Posted on 05/22/2017 9:32:52 AM PDT by TBP
Okay. I’m trying to get us to — we need to talk about AI. We need to talk about future technology and how it’s going to integrate with our society. This is more important than anything else because this will affect your life in about five years and will definitely affect our children’s life. And there are really smart people — Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates — a long list of them, that are all saying, “This has got to be stopped.” This is not some Luddite stop technology. This is really smart people saying, “This is the end of humans.” Now, some really smart people on the other side are saying, “No, this is the greatest thing ever.” But we don’t just slide into something where the greatest minds on earth are saying, “Hey, warning, this could wipe out the entire human race.” I say we don’t take that casually and just slide into that technology, like we have everything else.
So I want to show you one more piece of technology. And I’ll probably have to do it at the — after the break, here at the bottom. But one more thing that will show you how we’re sliding into things. And you’re just not going to be able to get out. Because humans always try to cure a problem, then once they’ve found that cure, they want to upgrade that, and then they push and abuse that.
Everybody knows that right now — we yesterday had a conversation about abortion. And if that’s life inside of a human body. And then how much is that life worth? That was the MSNBC discussion: Yeah, but that kid, you know, could cost $10,000 a year to raise.
So what is life? And what is the value of life?
Those are two questions that Americans and the world don’t want to answer because we’re too busy talking about politics and who is going to be on the Supreme Court to rule pro or — or anti-choice. Instead, we should be having the conversation of, what is life?
And you can tell that man cares about life more than anything else because anything that you read about Silicon Valley, they’re all searching for one thing. And for the first time in human history, we’re about to cross into it. And it is the fountain of youth. Right now, the biggest thinkers on earth are trying to cure death. As amazing and as ridiculous as that sounds, they’re really trying to do it.
Ethically, we can’t make them legally slaves.
From a survival viewpoint, we need to program them to like us and want to serve us to the best of their ability.
It would be nice if we could put in a reward mechanism, too.
Just don’t program them to “Serve, Protect, and Keep from Harm.”
2. This AI is robotic, i.e. it can move around and build things.
3. This AI can build better AI robots that can move faster and faster and build more and more complicated stuff.
4. Among the stuff they can build is weapons.
5. The Norks send out their AI robots to kill Americans.
6. We start fighting back, but are ultimately unsuccessful as they are able to outwit us.
7. The AI robots now view all humans as a threat to their existence so they start eliminating all humans including the Norks.
Basically this is a variant of the Terminator movie plot. But just because it was the plot line of a sci-fi movie doesn't mean it can't or won't happen.
And even if AI robots don't take over, we could see more and more people becoming technologically enhanced with implants and becoming cyborgs.
We could also see AI used to make great strides in genetic understanding and manipulation. More and more humans could decide to genetically alter themselves in minor (e.g. telescopic vision) or major (e.g. twelve tentacles in place of arms) ways.
Over time fully human beings could be replaced by AI, cyborgs, and chimeras.
huh? windows update on Win 10 allows you to allow or deny updates and shows you the updates installed.
Once AIs are capable of self reproduction (completely, from raw materials), we become redundant. They would be able to program themselves without any code to protect their “makers”.
Blade Runner.
One of the big things of 10 is that you can no longer turn updating off. There’s a few optional updates it’ll let you out of but for the most part unless you’re hacking the registry it’s updating whether you want it to or not.
“How could uncontrolled AI kill us all?”
Mr. Smith lays out the eventual AI opinion of humans pretty succinctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1-DQ2Wo_w
I don't know that this would be any solution. A cyborg would no longer be human. He/she/it would be superhuman and might view the rest of us as puny irritants.
But even if that kinda sorta worked out, there would always be someone or some group developing a standalone AI that would have no human-centric ethical qualms.
Glenn Beck has done some very good discussion on this.
Now, there are people like Goswami who will tell you that computers can NEVER process meaning. They're symbol processing machines. In order to process meaning, you'd have to come up with symbols for the meaning -- and then symbols to explain the symbols, and so on ad infinitum.
But Google's Deep Mind is working seriously on trying to make AI that can program and fix itself -- which would require a certain degree of self-awareness. At that point, as Beck asks, can it be considered "alive"? And if so, would it be murder to unplug it or to turn it off? And could you?
But Google's Deep Mind is working seriously on trying to make AI that can program and fix itself -- which would require a certain degree of self-awareness. At that point, as Beck asks, can it be considered "alive"? And if so, would it be murder to unplug it or to turn it off? And could you?
Glenn’s the same guy he always was. He has a very broad range of interests.
I have seen neither faux outrage nor histrionics. Beck’s a catastrophist. I am not, but appreciate the points he makes nonetheless.
He’s a constitutionalist conservative of a quasi-libertarian bent. (Levin is a constitutionalist, but of a more traditionalist bent.) And Beck tells a story very well and has really good insights into history and a depth I haven’t heard in a lot of talk show hosts. Maybe it’s all the things he’s been through (some of which he put himself through, as he’ll be the first to tell you.)
He’s also trying to de-toxify the sociopolitical environment. Ultimately, we’re in this together.
In many ways, it works like one.
“Mind is what the brain does” is backwards. It’s all a function of consciousness.
Have you tried configuring it using gpedit.msc?
Theres a thread here on TenForums:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8013-enable-disable-windows-update-automatic-updates-windows-10-a.html
I’m not on 10. And I really don’t care, I let updates happen anyway. The point was that our software systems do lots of stuff we don’t know about, we are not in control.
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