In some respects It is difficult to understand how this deviation occurred. We made all this ourselves and for ourselves.
Indeed, we are essentially “carbon chauvinists,” as Tegmark puts it. We like to think that only mortal machines like ourselves can think, calculate and create. But the idea that machines can’t do what humans do ignores important insights from AI. “
Of course, there are those who say, “Nonsense!” All Hunky Dolly! Even better! Please bring me the machine. The sooner you merge with them, the better. We already start with a deep attachment to our artificially made eyes and hearts and devices. Ray Kurzweil is notoriously impatient for the coming Singularity, where all distinction is practically gone. “It’s really the next few decades that we have to get through,” Kurzweil recently told a large audience.
Oh, that’s all.
Even Jaron Lanier says that the idea of AI taking over is stupid because it was created by humans, but if we misuse AI, we can literally drive ourselves crazy. It admits that if it does, there is a possibility of human extinction. “We will use our technology to make us incomprehensible or, if you like, insane. As a result, we are not acting with enough understanding and selfishness to survive. They essentially die of madness.”
Maybe we are just forgetting ourselves. “Dehumanize” was a phrase often repeated by bombers, and is repeated with nearly as much frequency today. A physicist friend of mine said that the danger of out-of-control technology is “the fear of losing some of the indefinable, extraordinary specialness that makes us human.” writing. Some 70 years later, Lanier agrees. “I have to say that consciousness is real and that humans have a mysterious interiority that sets them apart from the rest. Can we create technology that will help
Is it also Is it okay if we go extinct?
Humans have long excelled at empathy, kindness, and the ability to recognize and respond to the emotions of others. We pride ourselves on creativity and innovation, originality, adaptability and reason. Self-conscious. We create science, art and music. we dance and laugh
But ever since Jane Goodall revealed that chimpanzees are altruistic and can make tools and mourn the dead, all sorts of creatures, including fish, birds and giraffes, have learned to reason and plan ahead. You have proven that you can stand up, be fair, and resist temptation. I’m even dreaming (It seems that only humans can truly wreak mass destruction via their gigantic dislocated brains.)
Because we anthropomorphize animals, we sometimes assume that they can do all these things. Indeed, we think of machines as our friends, our pets, our best friends. MIT’s Sherry Turkle calls AI “artificial intimacy.” Because AI is very good at providing fake but compelling caring relationships, including fake empathy. Timing couldn’t be worse. The planet urgently needs our attention. We should do everything we can to connect with nature and not strengthen the “connection with objects that humanity is willing to die for.”
