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I for one will be voting for AI politicians once that is a thing.
I for one will be voting for AI politicians once that is a thing.
I won't, because I code AI myself or what people are passing off as AI these days. They are expert systems and they can be programmed to REPRESENT the interests and desires of whomever programs them and defines their rules. We have nothing close to true sentience. We just have things more and more adept at following larger and more complex sets of rules. This complexity gives more and more the illusion of sentience, though it is really just a simulation. So those who give the AI its rules would rule the world.
Right, I understand that and for now AI is limited in many ways, one being the processing power and optimizations needed and another being that most AI breakthroughs are isolated into some tiny niche utility where it excels at one thing but can't do anything else. For a long time I have thought decentralized AI would be something to negate the problem of processing power and mitigate the issue of a select few having total control, idea being if the bitcoin blockchain was actually processing an AI it would have a drastic impact on what it can do and how fast it can be done. Well, either a long time of telling people it should be done payed off or great minds think alike because we have a few decentralized AI projects in the oven, SingularityNET looks the most promising, DeepBrainChain has the right idea, and of course Golem has the potential for processing AI. SingularityNET sounds to me like they are aiming to solve the biggest problem which is the thousands of AI components we currently have rarely work together in any kind of intelligent way without human interventions, although I think in terms of processing ethereum is not the best choice. Anyway I suppose if you are into AI you probably heard of at least 2 of these, but to anyone else reading it may be something new and interesting to see :) Sorry for deviating so much from the original post topic ^_^
No, thanks for the information. I've heard of these, but have not investigated them fully. I mainly see the term AI as being two different things.
What we call AI today we once called Expert Systems. I have yet to see signs we have solved true intelligence. We have made amazing strides towards creating programs that can solve problems, and that are specially designed experts.
Is this truly intelligence? I guess that depends upon what one believes intelligence is.
I never have been one that thought following a set of instructions was a measure of intelligence. Yet at a low level we are likely following rules of our own, so perhaps that is sufficient.
I guess I should realize that Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sentience could be two very different things. Artificial Wisdom could also be different from AI. :)
It's very true, the term AI is so broadly used but generally in reference to things that can't really measure intelligence. It will be hard to say exactly when we cross that threshold because even if we have an AI that is seemingly intelligent it could just be an emulation of intelligence rather than something entirely new. But like you say this is a sort of symmantics problem of what we define as intelligence.. perhaps even a calculator has a kind of intelligence :)
I suppose the exciting part of SingularityNET is that all of the pieces can be connected into a single network. A human that is able to see things and identify them but do nothing else we would call them a vegetable, and that is kind of the state of our current AI in most cases. Really most of our human power comes from the large array of skills and talents we have working together under the construct of some overarching intelligence that directs them, and perhaps humans can play that role for the AI while it becomes amazing at everything else, I'm not really sure. Something like AlphaZero can be used to augment the AI for capacity to learn new skills, but the AI making goals and decisions the way we do seems like it will be the final step, only happening once everything else is in place, then suddenly all the components we have been creating are just random skills the AI can utilize while the true intelligence comes from something else :)