Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588

Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.

Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).

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John "Dobbymoodge" Lamb Feb 4

@mcc yep this is where I got off the bus that Kurzweil, transhumanists, BEAM roboticists, "AGI" optimists etc. still ride. It's clear that "human-like intelligence" has as much or more to do with hardware than software. They're trying to use the wrong tools to build this stuff, and they're all getting high on their own farts and saying "any day now"...

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John "Dobbymoodge" Lamb Feb 4

@mcc ...Meanwhile I created two arguably intelligent systems - let's call them creatures, or children - and I used my ding-dong to make them! I didn't do it on my own though, I had to collaborate with a woman, and delegate all of the difficult manufacturing work to her. That's the insurmountable barrier these techbros will never get past.

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mcc

@dobbymoodge :O dicks are awesome… women are awesome… wow…

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John "Dobbymoodge" Lamb Feb 5

@mcc I was being jokey, but I think there's something about human physiology that makes our intelligence unique (so far). I'm not going to say a full set of sensory inputs are required to be human (that's discriminatory at best), but the way it's all wired up is important. In any case, the big advantage of computers is that they do exactly what you tell them to without deviation or error. Why would we want to spend gobs of energy to make them suck at the one thing they're good at?