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This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped.

Anyone here hear of the great filter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self.

I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon.

But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines.

The universe is awfully quiet.

This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped. Anyone here hear of the great filter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self. I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon. But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines. The universe is awfully quiet.

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Look man I don't know how to respond to these absurd walls of text about DNA and life and what ever else other than to say that you don't understand what you are talking about and are barely even coherent at this point. Like I said, an AGI is not some magical universe solver. It's not some kind of supercomputing math machine. It is, as the name suggests, a "general" intelligence -- something capable of learning in general, as humans and other lifeforms do, rather than being specialized for a specific problem.

Even if an AGI was some kind of omnipotent math machine, not every bit of information can be decomposed to extract meaning when devoid of context. Again back to the coffee example -- if you tell an AGI to get you coffee, if it hasn't learned english and has never heard of coffee, the phrase "go get me a coffee" is completely meaningless. It's just a bunch of sounds, none of which convey any objective information about anything when removed from the context of human language. Even if it knows english, if it has never been told what coffee is there is absolutely no way to extract a description of coffee from the word itself. Even if it knows what coffee is, it's not going to know how humans like it served.

I would really recommend that you put everything you think you know about AI, AGI, and machine learning aside and just go read some wikipedia articles with an open mind. Definitely take a look at cryptography too, and maybe some on information science. Just read and reflect; don't try to tie it to any assumptions you may have. Pretend it's describing some fictional reality if that helps.

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>I would really recommend that you put everything you think you know about AI, AGI, and machine learning aside and just go read some wikipedia articles with an open mind. Definitely take a look at cryptography too, and maybe some on information science. Just read and reflect; don't try to tie it to any assumptions you may have. Pretend it's describing some fictional reality if that helps.

Who want's to explain it to him?

Dear lord.

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Wikipedia as opposed to the schizo timecube-esque blogs you've clearly gotten your current knowledge from. Given that wikipedia requires sourcing and these are very active fields of research, you can be fairly confident that you are at the very least not informing yourself with the ravings of a mentally ill retired bus driver. These are also not directly political or ideological topics and so will generally be free of the typical biases wikipedia fosters, at least to the extent that it interferes with the concepts being discussed. If wikipedia isn't for you, how about a library? Or some classes at your local community college? Really anything would be an improvement over wherever you've learned from previously.