If humanity (I might have said ‘language’ or ‘culture’) is any sort of artificial intelligence at all, this is a marvelous occurrence. It doesn’t have to be a superhuman AI (as in better than not just outside of) , or even a benevolent AI. It’s an intelligence that isn’t of our species, and that’s great. The way we’ve interacted with wolves to the point that now some of them are dogs, and some dogs are about as smart as a human child—that’s another non-human AI that I’m all in favor of. If humanity is as smart as any of us, even the lesser smart of us, it’s still someone to talk to. If a human / porpoise translation machine were invented tomorrow and it turned out they mostly wanted to talk about eating fish and swimming fast, I wouldn’t say turn the machine off.
No single human being can bloody the killing fields of Cambodia, carry out centuries of Islamic beheadings or own nations as slaves. Humanity can. Does it qualify?
Of topic, but a hot tip if you’re interested in exactly this kind of thing is to look up Tulpas and find someone on IRC with one. Here’s a sorta related link I hapened to have open: http://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/
If humanity (I might have said ‘language’ or ‘culture’) is any sort of artificial intelligence at all, this is a marvelous occurrence. It doesn’t have to be a superhuman AI (as in better than not just outside of) , or even a benevolent AI. It’s an intelligence that isn’t of our species, and that’s great. The way we’ve interacted with wolves to the point that now some of them are dogs, and some dogs are about as smart as a human child—that’s another non-human AI that I’m all in favor of. If humanity is as smart as any of us, even the lesser smart of us, it’s still someone to talk to. If a human / porpoise translation machine were invented tomorrow and it turned out they mostly wanted to talk about eating fish and swimming fast, I wouldn’t say turn the machine off.
No single human being can bloody the killing fields of Cambodia, carry out centuries of Islamic beheadings or own nations as slaves. Humanity can. Does it qualify?
Of topic, but a hot tip if you’re interested in exactly this kind of thing is to look up Tulpas and find someone on IRC with one. Here’s a sorta related link I hapened to have open: http://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/