The goofy part of that argument is assuming there’s some miracle solution that we just haven’t thought of. There have always been solutions, they just weren’t what power hungry imperialists and capitalists wanted to hear. The surest way some super intelligence could save us is by somehow getting our short sighted asses to set aside selfish advantage in favor of common good.
Another flaw is assuming an AI could simply science infinitely faster than we can when science relies on data gathering and double checking work with different methodologies, which would still bottleneck an AI that could instantly data analyze and see insights no one else could.
Such a super intelligence could also be prone to the same logical pitfalls and biases we are, even if it had millions of times the processing power. We already see machine learning producing “errors” similar to human minds, as such networks have a lot of the same limitations and strengths as our own. It could become convinced it’s correct and miss insights that contradict its preconceptions, stalling progress instead of helping it.
The goofy part of that argument is assuming there’s some miracle solution that we just haven’t thought of. There have always been solutions, they just weren’t what power hungry imperialists and capitalists wanted to hear. The surest way some super intelligence could save us is by somehow getting our short sighted asses to set aside selfish advantage in favor of common good.
Another flaw is assuming an AI could simply science infinitely faster than we can when science relies on data gathering and double checking work with different methodologies, which would still bottleneck an AI that could instantly data analyze and see insights no one else could.
Such a super intelligence could also be prone to the same logical pitfalls and biases we are, even if it had millions of times the processing power. We already see machine learning producing “errors” similar to human minds, as such networks have a lot of the same limitations and strengths as our own. It could become convinced it’s correct and miss insights that contradict its preconceptions, stalling progress instead of helping it.
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