AI Part 2-#Artificial Intelligence-Us or Them

In the evolution of man, it can easily be assumed that his number one goal has been to survive. In learning to survive, he has developed natural instincts, foraging and hunting for food, and shelter from the elements. As time continued forward so did man's evolution of survival.

He learned about farming, about climate, energy expenditure, disease, sex. Many left the forests, the caves, the villages, the towns, and created cities. He learned to make his life easier, less energy expenditure.

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If we met, an extraterrestrial who was biological creature and who has grown through the evolutionary process could we not expect an intelligent social species, which might also have motivations related to cooperation and competition.





Like us, it might show in-group loyalty, resentment of free riders, perhaps even a vain concern with reputation and appearance.

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Human beings tend to seek to acquire resources sufficient to meet their basic biological needs.

Except people usually seek to acquire resources far beyond this minimum level. In doing so, they may be partially driven by minor biological conveniences (such as housing that offers slightly better temperature control or more comfortable furniture).

A great deal of resource accumulation is motivated by social concerns—gaining status, mates, friends, and influence, through wealth accumulation and conspicuous consumption.

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There are numerous documents regarding man's knowledge of survival and his search for longer life  WHAT IF while man develops Artificial Intelligence, he, man, programs a goal that AI is to survive well into the future. Then would it not stand to reason that in many scenarios there will be future actions that Artificial Intelligence could perform to increase the probability of achieving its goal.  

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Some scientists and inventors have said, Once machines can match human intelligence, it will be a simple matter of copying intelligent agent software, which is capable of programming an artificial mind, from one computer to the next to create more workers for the economy.

Whereas the economy doubled every thousand years after the agricultural revolution, and every 15 years after the industrial revolution, a post-singularity economy could double every month, then week. That blistering pace of economic growth could be so fast that humans couldn't keep up.

As robots get smarter, humans just won't be able to keep up. While simpler tasks may be outsourced to robots at first, by 2045 Ray Kurzweil predicts that machines will be billions of times smarter than un-augmented human beings.

Robots have already replaced factory workers, and self-driving cars are just around the corner. Still other computer-science technologies, such as the ultrafast stock trading programs that cause "flash crashes," are being developed without considering how they could damage people or put them out of work, said Bill Hibbard, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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"The question is, could we evolve ourselves out of existence, being gradually replaced by the machines?" Asked by Joan Slonczewski, a microbiologist at Kenyon college and the author of a science-fiction book called "The Highest Frontier," (Tor Books, 2011).

In the recent discussion over the risks of developing superintelligent machines—that is, machines with general intelligence greater than that of humans—two narratives have emerged. 

One side argues that if a machine ever achieved advanced intelligence, it would automatically know and care about human values and wouldn’t pose a threat to us. 

The opposing side argues that artificial intelligence would “want” to wipe humans out, either out of revenge or an intrinsic desire for survival.
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Which generation will be the last generation that's only function is to turn the switches on while the machines do everything else.

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Thank you to all of those scientists, inventors, futurists, Sci-Fi writers, and everyone else interested in Artificial Intelligence. My next fictional novel about AI and Corporate America, "They Try to Think Like Us,"  will be out soon.
excerpts from :Bill Hibbard, Joan Slonczewski, Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom