Przy czym, jak pogrzebać głębiej, wyjdzie na to, że hipoteza owa b. popularna jest w Krzemowej Dolinie, tako przynajmniej rzecze "New Yorker":
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny
Taaa... „Manifest...” robi wrażenie, nie ma co. Dozwolę sobie zacytować wybrane fragmenty:
“That’s the unsettling thing about neural networks—you have no idea what they’re doing, and they can’t tell you.”
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Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. To Altman, the danger stems not from our possible creators but from our own creations. “These phones already control us,” he told me, frowning at his iPhone SE. “The merge has begun—and a merge is our best scenario. Any version without a merge will have conflict: we enslave the A.I. or it enslaves us. The full-on-crazy version of the merge is we get our brains uploaded into the cloud. I’d love that,” he said. “We need to level up humans, because our descendants will either conquer the galaxy or extinguish consciousness in the universe forever. What a time to be alive!”
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Synthetic viruses? Altman is planning a synthetic-biology unit within YC Research that could thwart them. Aging and death? He hopes to fund a parabiosis company, to place the rejuvenative elixir of youthful blood into an injection. “If it works,” he says, “you will still die, but you could get to a hundred and twenty being pretty healthy, then fail quickly.” Human obsolescence? He is thinking about establishing a group to prepare for our eventual successor, whether it be an A.I. or an enhanced version of Homo sapiens. The idea would be to assemble thinkers in robotics, cybernetics, quantum computing, A.I., synthetic biology, genomics, and space travel, as well as philosophers, to discuss the technology and the ethics of human replacement. For now, leaders in those fields are meeting semi-regularly at Altman’s house; the group jokingly calls itself the Covenant. (sic! - LA)
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One of the first things he did at OpenAI was to paint a quotation from Admiral Hyman Rickover on its conference-room wall. “The great end of life is not knowledge, but action,” Rickover said. “I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. . . . We must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success.” Altman recounted all the obstacles Rickover overcame to build America’s nuclear-armed Navy. “Incredible!” he said. But, after a considering pause, he added, “At the end of his life, when he may have been somewhat senile, he did also say that it should all be sunk to the bottom of the ocean. There’s something worth thinking about in there.”Cóż, the future is coming. Ta sama „straszna, czcza, elektryczna przyszłość człowieka”, którą proroczo przewidział Bułhakow...
Jestem człowiekiem starej generacji, trudno mi ogarnąć to wszystko rozumkiem
A co Ty myślisz o Samuelu Altmanie &Co, o Y Combinator, o
startapach i niepowstrzymanym postępie w dziedzinie AI?
Jak sądzisz, sztuczna inteligencja to droga ku świetlanej przyszłości, czy też skrzynka Pandory, dżinn w butelce, zagrożenie dla ludzkości?
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."
Poniekąd to samo, co mówi Wigner, tylko od drugiej strony.
No nie wiem... „poznawalność” świata i jego „matematyczność” to chyba nie jedno i to samo. Mimo woli przychodzi na myśl aforyzm niedawno wspominanego Bertranda Russella:
Fizyka jest matematyczna nie dlatego, że tak dużo wiemy o świecie fizycznym, lecz dlatego, że wiemy tak niewiele; jesteśmy w stanie odkryć jedynie jej matematyczne właściwości.