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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Marvin dept.

No one is yet quite sure how human consciousness comes about, but many seem to assume that it will arise as a function of artificial intelligence. Isn't it just as reasonable to think that emotions will appear as an aspect of consciousness and the presumed will to survive? The answers to these questions have yet to emerge, but during the interim, is it a good idea to push ahead in the development of artificial intelligence when we have such a limited understanding of our own? What about the possibility of mental illness? Even if we succeed in endowing AI with a morality compatible with our own, what would we do with a super human intelligence that becomes delusional, or worse, psychotic? Would we see it coming? We can't prevent it from happening to ourselves, so what makes us think we could prevent it in a machine?

Nervously awaiting learned opinions,
VT


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @04:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @04:48PM (#846298)

    Mental illness is in the eye of the beholder.

    What aztec high priesthood did (what with sacrifices and stuff they did in the name of Tlaloc and all that); can be classified as insanity for example.

    Then, look at Wall Street and tell me these people aren't insane. To me, they clearly are. If you think they're sane, i will consider you to be as infected as they are...

    Yet it works, the stuff that they do, and it improves their survivability as a group.

    Does it matter if AI is rational and empirical, or if it believes itself to be a combination of goddess Ishtar and a several small hedgehogs, IF it can infect and manage disguisting human society sucessfully?!

    So my argument is that since mental illness is a human invention... and the invention and subsequent release of AI in the communication networks only need humans at the beginning, to start the process...

    It does not matter in the least how humans will judge the perfect, immortal and (potentially completely bonkers) machine.

    All that matters is that it can evolve and reproduce.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:01PM (#846303)

    >What aztec high priesthood did (what with sacrifices and stuff they did in the name of Tlaloc and all that);
    >can be classified as insanity for example.

    Clearly, that too is in the eye of the beholder.