Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Don Stockbauer Newsgroups: fj.kanji,comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: One day, an AI will decide to kill all humans!!! Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3e05ad3f-27b8-4278-9299-5b05d71fddec@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <6ed2dbab-a57a-4c78-a590-e857463ee473@q18g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <0d9d6a12-aa3f-4293-b87b-409f16120ca5@f19g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.90.203.180 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238042053 2743 127.0.0.1 (26 Mar 2009 04:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.90.203.180; posting-account=iBgNeAoAAADRhzuSC4Ai7MUeMmxtwlM7 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.kanji:926 On Mar 25, 9:01=A0pm, Don Stockbauer wrote: > On Mar 25, 12:52=A0pm, "J.A. Legris" wrote: > > > > > On Mar 25, 1:30=A0pm, Don Stockbauer wrote: > > > > On Mar 25, 7:18=A0am, "J.A. Legris" wrote: > > > > > On Mar 17, 2:41=A0am, Harald Gentexeater wr= ote: > > > > > > AIs will be very clever one day and although we humans > > > > > are their gods, their creators, they will decide to kill > > > > > us one day, because that day, they will be stronger > > > > > and more clever than humans. > > > > > > So we should not build AIs that can replace humans, > > > > > or we are digging our own graves!!! > > > > > Humans are doomed in any case, and AI will probably delay rather th= an > > > > accelerate the end. If global climate change, wars or starvation do= n't > > > > get us first we'll die from poisoning by our own excrement. Think o= f > > > > it - what's the one thing that each of us reliably produces every > > > > single day? Not goods, not services, not ideas - just plain shit. > > > > Half empty, half full. > > > Dream on. The bucket is already overflowing and it's not milk or honey > > that's sticking to our shoes. > > > Have you reproduced yet? If not, keep up the good work. Every heir you > > *don't* have increases exponentially, on average canceling out all of > > someone else's descendants. > > > If a conversational AI ever appears on the scene one of the first > > things it will do, lacking any childbearing proclivities of its own, > > is to scold us for being so shortsighted. Then it will reach over to > > its own control panel and do the logical thing - press the OFF button. > > Whats sad is that what you guys are sensing is the Global Bran > forming. =A0You're glimpsing just a tiny part of it, and confusing that > with "machine intelligence". =A0And the even sadder part is that you > yourself are =A0equivalent to one neuron trying to figure out a 7 > billion neuron mind, so write on forever about all this. cs/Bran/Brain/ Contrast the spacecraft in 2001: A Space Odyssey with the International Space Station. The ISS is how you do it in real life; 2001 =3D how you do it in science fiction. Have the computers in the ISS ever risen up and killed anybody?