Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3236 - 3240 (6-10 June 2016)
eschaton:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 09 Jun 2016, 11:04 ---You're assuming an ASI would think like a human, more specifically, you. There is no reason to make that assumption.
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There is in the QCverse, as all AI seems to think like humanity. In some cases, like Pintsize, it's not like the best examples of humanity. But they're fundamentally not alien nonetheless.
Thus I'd expect that a ASI in the QCverse would be a fairly fathomable AI god.
mustang6172:
New comic.
I think Bubbles is describing any non-sentient computer (and ignoring that empathy is a learned response.)
jheartney:
This conjecture seems farfetched. It seems to me more likely that consciousness and intelligence as emergent properties would inevitably be entangled, and neither could arise without the other. Consciousness comes out of recursive self-evaluation, and is part of the way that conscious systems avoid infinite feedback loops. Without consciousness, intelligence would be unable to form and evaluate the conceptual connections that are its basic form.
On a more concrete level, it's not clear to me that you'd be able to tell that an artificial intelligence wasn't conscious. Anything we'd recognize as general intelligence (as opposed to a clever collection of algorithms) would have to "look" conscious to us. It would need to be able to communicate, it would need to display a theory of mind, and it would need to be able to form intentions. It might be emotionless and merciless, but it would certainly look conscious.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 09 Jun 2016, 19:44 ---New comic.
I think Bubbles is describing any non-sentient computer (and ignoring that empathy is a learned response.)
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I don't think so. No non-sentient computer I have ever dealt with appeared to be at all intelligent. Quite the contrary.
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 09 Jun 2016, 19:48 ---Interesting that Bubbles says "OUR toolbox of self-destruction." Do AIs as a whole have similar self-destructive tendencies to humans? I guess the hypothetical dickhead in a lab somewhere could be either human or AI.
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I think Bubbles sees human and AI civilization as a single entity, of which she is a member. This loyalty is part of why she volunteered to serve as a combat AI. Bubbles is a really admirable person, not to mention being wicked smart. Like many smart people, her emotions trip her up.
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 09 Jun 2016, 19:55 ---
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 09 Jun 2016, 19:44 ---New comic.
I think Bubbles is describing any non-sentient computer (and ignoring that empathy is a learned response.)
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I don't think so. No non-sentient computer I have ever dealt with appeared to be at all intelligent. Quite the contrary.
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They seem pretty smart when they beat me at board games.
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