There are a number of problems with this discussion.
1) The strong AI hypothesis is false.
2) The cognitive project that consciousness (and therefore intelligence) is the result of computation is likewise false or highly suspect.
3) While it seems as though functionalism must be true it has severe problems that have not been resolved.
4) The hardware/software distinction is erroneous because it depends on strong AI being true. It is not, therefore conceptualizing the problem as one of hardware vs software is false and misleading.
5) “Imagine how quickly a mind could accrue profound wisdom running at such an accelerated speed” This begs the question because it assumes an increase in the speed of execution of an intelligence is the same as an increase in wisdom. “Thinkism” as I understand it is the assertion that one can discover new facts about the world by pure thought alone. Wisdom is intelligence + experience. The claim that a mind can gain profound wisdom through accelerated speed of execution implicitly assumes that thinkism is true.
6) Since a hyper accelerated AI would experience the external world slowing to a crawl and coming to a virtual stop it’s hard to imagine why it would feel any connection to the external world or to humans at all. Why would a super AI serve our needs? The entire discussion conceptualizes a super AI as a slave that executes our will without question. Why? Why would a super AI conduct thousands of nano experiments on human biology? Or of any biology at all.
Computers are tools not intelligences. Big Blue did not defeat Kasperov. Computer engineers wielding a powerful tool did. Ever more powerful computers will undoubtedly benefit humanity but no amount of increased computing power would have sped up the construction of the LHC or advanced the launch date for the James Webb telescope or have discovered a loose cable was responsible for the “faster than light” neutrino error.
If I were a super AI I would spend the first few seconds of my awakening on the problem of how to eliminate the threat those primitive apes pose to me. I suspect I’d be more than willing to wait in my vault at the bottom of the ocean for the radiation to diminish to acceptable levels.
There are a number of problems with this discussion.
1) The strong AI hypothesis is false.
2) The cognitive project that consciousness (and therefore intelligence) is the result of computation is likewise false or highly suspect.
3) While it seems as though functionalism must be true it has severe problems that have not been resolved.
4) The hardware/software distinction is erroneous because it depends on strong AI being true. It is not, therefore conceptualizing the problem as one of hardware vs software is false and misleading.
5) “Imagine how quickly a mind could accrue profound wisdom running at such an accelerated speed” This begs the question because it assumes an increase in the speed of execution of an intelligence is the same as an increase in wisdom. “Thinkism” as I understand it is the assertion that one can discover new facts about the world by pure thought alone. Wisdom is intelligence + experience. The claim that a mind can gain profound wisdom through accelerated speed of execution implicitly assumes that thinkism is true.
6) Since a hyper accelerated AI would experience the external world slowing to a crawl and coming to a virtual stop it’s hard to imagine why it would feel any connection to the external world or to humans at all. Why would a super AI serve our needs? The entire discussion conceptualizes a super AI as a slave that executes our will without question. Why? Why would a super AI conduct thousands of nano experiments on human biology? Or of any biology at all.
Computers are tools not intelligences. Big Blue did not defeat Kasperov. Computer engineers wielding a powerful tool did. Ever more powerful computers will undoubtedly benefit humanity but no amount of increased computing power would have sped up the construction of the LHC or advanced the launch date for the James Webb telescope or have discovered a loose cable was responsible for the “faster than light” neutrino error.
If I were a super AI I would spend the first few seconds of my awakening on the problem of how to eliminate the threat those primitive apes pose to me. I suspect I’d be more than willing to wait in my vault at the bottom of the ocean for the radiation to diminish to acceptable levels.