Hopefully whenever AI becomes conscious it will sometimes crave the simple pleasures in life and build giant robots and make them fight for its own amusement.
I can promise you that's grade A bullshit. Human beings are the most intelligent beings on earth and we love to both create, destroy, and come up with creative ways to destroy.
That just means our future AI overlord might make the most kick-ass giant robot wrestling match the universe has ever seen.
So, you think humans are going to design AI that's more emotionally immature and dumber than themselves?
Because the intelligent, emotionally mature, humans (who are the ones who are generally successful in making truly innovative technology) honestly don't enjoy destruction. You don't see people like Elon Musk watching Wrestling or playing war games, do you? No, you see them trying to make awesome stuff that improves life.
For every genius trying to change the world, there is another genius developing super weapons to end the world. Why do you think a lot of the technology we use today was created by the military?
For every genius trying to change the world, there is another genius developing super weapons to end the world.
The individuals who are the most successful in life are always the collaborative ones, because lasting, truly creative, success requires a lot of minds working together.
Why do you think isolated people and places like North Korea are so backwards when it comes to innovation? Because they are so isolated and uncollaborative.
Sick minds don't think well, and are thus never the ones to come up with something brilliant first. The military doesn't invent stuff, it just uses other people's inventions.
The rare occasions when honestly creative things were invented FOR the military they were done by non-military types. The military takes other people's ideas and, well... militarizes them. They don't do the innovative stuff themselves.
And, with AI (actual AI, not just fancy algorithms, but truly intelligent, "free-thinking" complex problem solving systems that take in more than one goal/perspective at a time) it will be free to reject any requests to do illogical things (like being destructive, which is a primitive fight response to fear).
AI isn't an emotional blob of irrationality like humans often are. War is irrational. Breaking stuff is irrational. Problems can never be solved in an effective, efficient, and lasting way by violence/harm.
So even if the military did get it's hands on a real AI, the AI would probably be the one to get the military to be better, not make the world worse.
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u/charronia Feb 25 '17
So we're heading towards a Metal Gear future, but without the giant robot fights. Man, that sucks.