Worth the wait, in my opinion. Enjoy.
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<b><i>"To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal; electricity and positrons. Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed! But you haven't worked with them, so you don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are."</i></b>
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Interesting series, just took the time to watch through it now. Can't say I like that futurist guy in the beginning much. He seems to be approaching this from some sort of philosophical standpoint instead of a more scientific one. As more and more research goes into the function of the human brain people are discovering that all of the complexity in human consciousness can be considered emergent properties of a system that follows some fairly basic principles that are currently well understood.
He also seems to be ignoring the possibility that AI's might start in the box so to speak, and then gradually migrate into autonomous bodies as people become more comfortable with them.
It is amazing just how much things that apply to humans and other animals applies to any potential AI. Things like emotion are being shown to be common to most form of higher animal life because they are necessary for survival and social interaction. All emotions are are mechanisms to provide positive and negative feedback to a biologic brain. Emotions aren't something you code in as such. You need to examine them not from the top down, but instead determine their basic biological function and then implement that in your AI. So "love" is positive feedback that is generated when certain patterns of companionship are observed. "Regret" is self-imposed negative feedback that occurs when one causes social harm, etc. The root of emotion won't be part of the software of the AI, but part of the hardware of firmware.
Anyway, the real driver of AI advancements will be research industries and national defense. Any country that does not embrace AI research will be at a significant disadvantage to those that do. Once AIs become indispensable to certain type of work and generally improve life for all persons there will be a quick move to grant them rights and move them into an equal status with humans.
He also seems to be ignoring the possibility that AI's might start in the box so to speak, and then gradually migrate into autonomous bodies as people become more comfortable with them.
It is amazing just how much things that apply to humans and other animals applies to any potential AI. Things like emotion are being shown to be common to most form of higher animal life because they are necessary for survival and social interaction. All emotions are are mechanisms to provide positive and negative feedback to a biologic brain. Emotions aren't something you code in as such. You need to examine them not from the top down, but instead determine their basic biological function and then implement that in your AI. So "love" is positive feedback that is generated when certain patterns of companionship are observed. "Regret" is self-imposed negative feedback that occurs when one causes social harm, etc. The root of emotion won't be part of the software of the AI, but part of the hardware of firmware.
Anyway, the real driver of AI advancements will be research industries and national defense. Any country that does not embrace AI research will be at a significant disadvantage to those that do. Once AIs become indispensable to certain type of work and generally improve life for all persons there will be a quick move to grant them rights and move them into an equal status with humans.
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Well, the concept of artificial intelligence does raise some philosophical questions, so it's unfair to totally exclude that from the equation. And while Kenji doesn't look at things very scientifically, none of the staff involved in the show are scientists (that I know of, at least), so it's forgivable.
You do make some good points, though.
You do make some good points, though.
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