They will necessarily be samples from our mindspace—otherwise they wouldn’t be so useful.
Computers so far have been very different from us. That is partly because they have been built to compensate for our weaknesses—to be strong where we are weak. They compensate for our poor memories, our terrible arithmetic module, our poor long-distance communications skills—and our poor ability at serial tasks. That is how they have managed to find a foothold in society—before maastering nanotechnology.
IMO, we will probably be seeing a considerable amount more of that sort of thing.
Computers so far have been very different from us.
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Agree with your point, but so far computers have been extensions of our minds and not minds in their own right. And perhaps that trend will continue long enough to delay AGI for a while.
For for AGI, for them to be minds, they will need to think and understand human language—and this is why I say they “will necessarily be samples from our mindspace”.
Computers so far have been very different from us. That is partly because they have been built to compensate for our weaknesses—to be strong where we are weak. They compensate for our poor memories, our terrible arithmetic module, our poor long-distance communications skills—and our poor ability at serial tasks. That is how they have managed to find a foothold in society—before maastering nanotechnology.
IMO, we will probably be seeing a considerable amount more of that sort of thing.
Agree with your point, but so far computers have been extensions of our minds and not minds in their own right. And perhaps that trend will continue long enough to delay AGI for a while.
For for AGI, for them to be minds, they will need to think and understand human language—and this is why I say they “will necessarily be samples from our mindspace”.