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On the origin of species (AI)
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph has said it's complete free will.
Zwammy:
Factors that I wonder about is just how each individual Anthro PC (or forklift, submarine, toaster, etc.) becomes a self-aware AI. The singularity seems based on a particular computer becoming intelligent enough to cross an event horizon into self-awareness, but can you really mass produce AI's like that?
Does an AI compiler spend its time converting a template program into basic AI's, which are inserted into a crèche server until they learn enough to decide how they want to spend their time?
I realize this is a comic, and some artistic license will be taken - but realistically, it doesn't seem like a Pintsize-type robot can house enough hardware to function as he seems capable, and that includes an AI-class intelligence. Especially if 512mb causes problems, since the idea of Momo using most of her computing power to maintain her self-awareness would seem to indicate more ram can only help. The idea that a bigger chassis (with accompanying hardware upgrades) helps increase actual AI capability is a good hypothesis, but how small of a program can function as a self-aware entity? Circuit miniaturization has come a long way, and nano-tech capability would be a factor, but wouldn't things be a lot more futuristic? Station (both the AI and the physical environment) seem to be an exception in modern life, but in the QC world should be more routine in peoples' day to day lives.
Also, Pintsize getting brutalized repeatedly (admittedly deserving of it as he is), rewiring his Sentience matrix, and other unforeseen issues might cause real problems in maintaining enough unbroken logic circuits to maintain AI capability. Overheating? Baaaaad.
Just stuff that runs through my head sometimes.
T:
My hypothesis is that the singularity isn't based on a single computer but one the collectivity of the AIs.
So a lot of the processing power from companion AIs actually is dedicated to the singularity collective while the remain power is used by the individual chasis.
Each individual AI would be a fragment of the singularity. The singularity as an entity have access to the individual AIs but the individual AIs don't have a direct access to the singularity.
Mr_Rose:
Momo explained that the first AI was an emergent phenomenon from a certain configuration of hardware and software and that no-one expected it. The next ones were evidently experiments with the same sorts of gear in order to determine repeatability, and eventually someone figured out combos to make it happen on lots of different substrates, but up until the singularity I bet it was pretty old-school trial and error stuff without a fundamentally accurate understanding of what was going on with any precision.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: T on 27 Jun 2014, 19:22 ---Each individual AI would be a fragment of the singularity. The singularity as an entity have access to the individual AIs but the individual AIs don't have a direct access to the singularity.
--- End quote ---
This bothers me. As a scientist, accurate usage of correct terminology is ridiculously important.
The singularity is an event, not an entity/item/intelligence. It is the event of an artificial "intelligence" becoming a true, sentient intelligence.
Whether the mechanism is "cloud based" or not, it is apparently independent of computing power. But the AI's aren't tapping into a singularity - their existence is the singularity!
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