The Hard Problem of AI: Selection from Matrix Science Documentary Part 2 of 2

[punchthedog]

In just about every documentary I have ever seen about artificial intelligence, somebody raises the notion that the computers will inevitably become far more intelligent that humans and then turn against their creators. While I can accept that one day the computers will become more intelligent than us, I don’t accept that there is nothing we can do to control these newly sentient computers. In a contest between a mega-intelligent supercomputer and a man with a fire axe, I’d bet on the man.

[LogosSteve]

@punchthedog A common false hypothetical dichotomy. Peoples' notion of "machines turning against us" is irrational. It's a bias towards our own species akin to racism and thus it makes a great narrative throughout all science fiction. If a machine could think like us does it even stand to gain anything by wiping us out? And if a computer could think like us and do it infinitely better do we have any right to constrain it to be our slave?

[LogosSteve]

@punchthedog As is briefly touched on in part 1 we're going to grow up with and gradually become sentient machines in the near future and we technically already are sentient machines. All of this fear is completely counterproductive and we're already going to be insanely careful because of it anyway so perpetuating it is disgusting. All of the human-centric bias we have today will be looked back on with the same attitude that we view past human rights struggles e.g. the rights of women.