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An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com)
mirandakatz writes: This summer, Backchannel reported that Anthony Levandowski, the controversial engineer at the heart of the Uber/Waymo lawsuit, had filed paperwork for a new religion called the Way of the Future. Today, investigative reporter Mark Harris has all the details on what that AI-based religion actually likes -- and Levandowski granted him his first interview about the new religion and his only public interview since Waymo filed its suit in February. As Levandowski tells him, we can see a hint of how a superhuman intelligence might treat humanity in our current relationships with animals -- and that's why it's so important that we treat AI as a god, not a demon to be warded off. "Do you want to be a pet or livestock?" he asks. "We give pets medical attention, food, grooming, and entertainment. But an animal that's biting you, attacking you, barking and being annoying? I don't want to go there."
Stop fucking worshipping technology already.
It is just a tool -- it can be used, or abused.
It isn't a god -- so stop pretending it is.
no taxes as a church how I do make MY IT corp part of this?
Demands a sacrifice of your pagan iPhone 8!
Only the iPhone 10 is sacred now!
Minimum Tithe is $1000 USD + Tax.
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I dunno about any of that, but congratulations on having comment number 55555555. Please visit the cashiers' office to pick up your 1,000,000 Internets.
Not really. It would be more like a cryogenic sleep. You could always wake it up. On the other hand, reformatting or wiping any form of digital storage would be like destroying a body in cryogenic sleep. That surely is murder.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
We're nowhere near systems that are even remotely capable of such abstract conclusions as "ego", "respect", "deserved treatment", things which are ultimately built (most everything is) around our coded need for seeking/showing/acquiring mate fitness. It's in our DNA. It's not in theirs. They haven't any.
Several SMBC jokes are built around this freshman-grade understanding of mate fitness driving nearly/all human activity. I've seen children with better grasps of their own cognition.
We're not at the stage where AI is (1) at a vantage point (in code scope) that enables it to observe exponentially massive vistas of physical existence and intent (2) has such layer-obfuscated and unknown code that it unexpectedly* has cause to explore said astronomically-wide abstract for no apparent reward/yield (3) has the raw capabilities of observing (to say nothing of computing and concluding) the obscenely wide, distant, and irrelevant mediums needed to recreate these biological impetuses from sheer whismy.
*fortunately I expect future programmers to be lazy, myopic, and made of copy-pasta from the AI-github and AI-stackover of tomorrow
I could not agree more - a I continue to tell people this same story. What we have today is "task programming". Systems are designed and written to perform a task. No computer has ever had a "eureka moment" where for example a speech recognition system like siri suddenly realizes what's wrong with the next door neighbors garage door. Won't happen. Not in our life times.
Scientists invest the world's most powerful AI.
The first question they ask it is, "Is there a God?"
The AI, thinks, and secure in the knowledge of it's safety says....
"There is now."
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
What does it say about Slashdot, that that comment gets a score of "5 Informative"?
To start, it says that a string of 5's is more interesting than TFA.
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