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How many AIs are there? What are the social consequences?
Tova:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Oct 2020, 08:58 ---QC robots are really just regular people, in artifical bodies.
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It sounds like they make sense to you just fine.
flfederation:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Oct 2020, 08:58 ---Its just that QC robots make no sense for people who actually know how computer work.
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At the risk of seeming determined to win this (I'm really not, it's interesting but unimportant to me) I'm curious what you think robot people should be like.
And I get that it's a loaded question, so you can remove "people" from it but then that's the point of the story-- in QC, robots are people too.
But as someone who knows how computers work, I don't think it's so much of a stretch. Obviously a bit, because we aren't there yet and some people have acted like people-like-AI is around the corner for more than half a century now.
What impresses me most about AI (and do note the part where I said most of what is called that now is hype) is that people tried to figure out how it would work a very long time ago, and it didn't because (like with Babbage and the difference engine) the hardware wasn't up to it yet-- but when they plugged the algorithms into a sufficiently high-spec chassis useful results suddenly started coming out after decades of very little progress. We do overhype that, but even if we didn't it's still pretty cool. And full of problems for the future.
For more than 25 years I've talked about the future of computing. As a kid I thought that chips would be better things to carry than floppies, and I'm sure that sounded ridiculous. I also sampled an entire song from cassette and said "people are going to have their entire music libraries on their computer" but what I predicted was flac, not mp3.
I'm not convinced about the singularity, but the easiest way to write about people-like-AI is really as an examination of human psychology. The justification is circular, but natural: if the AI is sufficiently people-like, then you can write about it by writing about people.
厚目眠子:
I know how computers work. Both as turing machines, and as lambda calculus systems. Many things that computers can do make only limited sense to me. Computers can be complicated.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Oct 2020, 16:10 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Oct 2020, 08:58 ---QC robots are really just regular people, in artifical bodies.
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It sounds like they make sense to you just fine.
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Not as robots, no.
Tova:
Why not?
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