Maybe I'm just failing to comprehend the impact of an AI with human level intelligence. I hear it mentioned as if it's some Pandora's box that's going to abruptly take over the world.
But to me it just sounds like a debugging algorithm that's going to save coders time and resources by doing the heavy lifting, so people can focus on design work. Or maybe help researchers gather and analyze data.
While I respect Kurzweil, I have no idea why he thinks reverse engineering the human brain is the right way of going about creating a super intelligence. I understand the inspiration. But at best he can hope to stumble upon something that works much better than the human brain on the way to attempting to emulate it.
Our best technology has no resemblance to nature. Books, refrigerators, phones and automobiles are distinctively man made. Nothing like that can be found in nature. Recreating the human brain would be like a cave man trying to recreate the human leg, when you can just invent a wheel.
I don't think we have to trip out on the possible motivations of a super AI. Chances are it would never have any motivations other than the tasks we assign to it. We have motivations because we're a bundle of nerves and chemicals inside of an awkward meat suit with allot of requirements and preferences.
Submitted September 07, 2015 at 12:34PM by kirkisartist http://ift.tt/1UBUzRq Futurology
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