From: Jeff Herrlich (jeff_herrlich@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 13:12:06 MST
"I think it's possible that we evolved the way we did because it works
well, not due to the special circumstances faced by homo sapiens, and
therefore some elements may repeat in a GAI."
I have hair on my head, and I have general intelligence. But I don't have general intelligence because I have hair on my head. General intelligence is not the only adaptive advantage that evolution operates on. Things like emotions are not necessary for general intelligence, evolution tacked them on to some animals because they incidentally happened to have additional value in terms of survival and reproduction - like hair on the head.
Jeffrey Herrlich
Harry Chesley <chesley@acm.org> wrote:
Thomas McCabe wrote:
> If you want to build a generally intelligent AI, it had better darn
> be Friendly, or Very Bad Things (tm) are going to happen.
This is where I rub my hands together and chortle?
> *Why* would anyone build an anthropomorphic AI? It would be a huge
> amount of extra work, for no palpable gain, at a great risk to the
> planet.
They said the same thing about graphical user interfaces. Well, except
for the last part.
> I've read all the posts I've responded to, but this thread alone has
> dozens of posts, there's no real point to reading them all.
Sigh.
Anyway, I think we've both made our points. You think any
anthropomorphic elements of a GAI are either unlikely or dangerous. I
think it's possible that we evolved the way we did because it works
well, not due to the special circumstances faced by homo sapiens, and
therefore some elements may repeat in a GAI.
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