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Do you want Artificial Intelligence to be invented? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is not a question about if you think it is possible, or not.

This is a question about your own will and desires. If there was a vote and you had a ballot in your hand, what will you vote? Do you want Artificial Intelligence to exist, do you not, maybe do you not care?

Here I define Artificial Intelligence as something created by humans that is capable of rational thinking, that is creative, that it's self aware and have consciousness. All that with the processing power of computers behind it.

As for the important question that would arise of "Who is creating this AI?", I'm not that focused on the first AI created, as it's supposed that with time multiple AI will be created by multiple entities. The question would be if you want this process to start or not.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, to answer questions about consciousness and prove that we aren't special or have super special magical souls

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Any Ai couldn't answer that any more then science could. You already have your answer, if you believe in science.

I think we have souls though. :)

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

🤷 I still say yes and I still think it would be profound and perspective changing to create something "like us" with silicon

I also don't think AI and science are mutually exclusive. I don't mean asking the AI questions about consciousness and getting answers directly from it like an LLM chatbot, but the fact that we can make it and scientific study + observation of the AGI phenomenon might provide some answers

And even if we develop AGI that is just like us, maybe you're right and maybe it proves absolutely nothing about souls, but it at least narrows the requirements and eliminates some common reasoning, which should be in everyone's interests, because it could further define and help us understand the nature of the hypothetical soul

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Yup I agree. I also think there is human cloning going on too (it's illegal but obviously secret organizations are doing it).

Do those clones have souls? It's even more interesting to me since it's an attempted copy of a real person.

We won't find out until cloning is legal, and it won't be legal until it's 100% safe. All the failed clones are most likely being terminated in secret.