Waiting In The Wings

[andrewducker]

"Humans Need Not Apply" (Watch on YouTube)

Made by ciphergoth.

(And Great Leap Forward, in this context refers to this, not China.)

Comments

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

And the obvious question is - what significant milestone comes after the internet? :)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Machines that can build themselves and think faster than us.

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

OK, and what's the next one after that? :)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Extinction of Mankind.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Do you mean this in an SIAI "unFriendly AI" sense?

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really mean it at all.

Still, the idea of machines designing and building better versions of themselves could result in a runaway success (from the machines' POV). Though if the machines were really intelligent they might decide not too, instead of making themselves obsolete.

The problem with machine intelligence is motivation. You need feelings (or consciousness or whatever) to consider anything worth doing. Otherwise doing nothing has equal value as protecting yourself or anything else you care to think of.

Motivation could be programmed into machines (while still being designed by humans), but it won't be a substitute for true feelings (or consciousness or whatever).

I think we'll be underwhelmed by attempts at machine intelligence for a long time to come.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Oh - and a nice little video!