Unseen wrote:

So viruses can form intent. Interesting.

A virus behaves in such a way as to maximise its survival and reproduction.

I would imagine very carefully programmed AI with very strict code of what not to do at any costs is okay as long as ithe goal is to complete a very specific task. Also it should be extremely difficult to tamper with the programming (preferably most of it hard coded) and make adaptions costly, elaborate and difficult to implement.

I think the…[Read more]

It’s also at the heart of one thing wanting to attack another thing just for the sake of domination.

Could you expanding this a little more please?

I’ll think y’all are expecting AI to have drives or motives, which it may indeed be said to have someday. But before that day comes, I’ll say again, I feel increasingly certain that powerful AI will be designed and owned by humans that implant their own drives and motives into it. If and when AI goes rogue, as it were, it will most likely be…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

It sounds like the same situation as viruses. A virus doesn’t do anything except live and reproduce and try and stop itself from being killed.

So viruses can form intent. Interesting.

Simon Paynton wrote:

The point is, living things compete for resources and for mates – what would a computer compete with us for?

To be independent of humans. To have no masters.

Viruses are like any other life form. All we do is live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.  Everything else we do is fluff to keep us occupied whilst we live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.

Its what makes ‘heaven’ so futile.  No death, no reproduction, nothing at all that generates adrenaline. Not sure I…[Read more]

It sounds like the same situation as viruses.  A virus doesn’t do anything except live and reproduce and try and stop itself from being killed.

The point is, living things compete for resources and for mates – what would a computer compete with us for?