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DavidDvorkin

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19. That's believable, but it makes me wonder where the alien AIs are

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2023, 04:44 PM

May 2023

It seems likely to me that there are other, more advanced civilizations in the Milky Way, probably far more advanced. They would also have developed AIs, which would then have gone on to colonize the Milky Way.

So where are they? They wouldn't be interest in us, either, but we should see signs of their great engineering projects.

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The Guardian found an AI expert who says AI won't harm us - it will just view us as ants [View all] highplainsdem May 2023 OP

Anyone that thinks that they know what an AI intelligence thinks is full of it. No one really knows SWBTATTReg May 2023 #1

there is no AI that *thinks* edisdead May 2023 #8

Yes, I know that, but wonders can be done w/ table updates from the real world that the entity SWBTATTReg May 2023 #9

Have worked with databases the last 27 years of my life edisdead May 2023 #10

Ah, a fellow IT'er. Nice to meet you, been in since '75, I coded mostly and JCL, standards, touched SWBTATTReg May 2023 #18

Yeah man! edisdead May 2023 #20

Nice, and what a change of pace too. One does get burned out in IT, being on call all of the time, SWBTATTReg May 2023 #25

Well then...just don't tell AI about magnifying glasses then. ret5hd May 2023 #2

Thanks. Feeling better already ... marble falls May 2023 #3

When's the last time a new technology surpassed all expectations? Shermann May 2023 #4

Personal computers and the internet sure did. hunter May 2023 #11

Computers, smartphones, perhaps Shermann May 2023 #14

The George Forman Grill Renew Deal May 2023 #13

Icarus? dchill May 2023 #5

Just another version of somebody telling us what "God" wants. Maru Kitteh May 2023 #6

We were warned about the replicants ... dweller May 2023 #7

That's when real Ai finally comes into existence. haele May 2023 #12

I saw that show. Cylons. Brenda May 2023 #15

And we kill ants when they're pests, without a second thought NickB79 May 2023 #16

Nor would his vision of our superintelligent robots colonizing other star highplainsdem May 2023 #17

That's believable, but it makes me wonder where the alien AIs are DavidDvorkin May 2023 #19

And you know how people can be with ants. Kid Berwyn May 2023 #21

"Self awareness" is a concept that goes far beyond where AI is today. brooklynite May 2023 #22

it may well come though, especially if/when quantum computing starts to explode as well Celerity May 2023 #23

That's fine. Experts in the field are worrying - and warning - about it. highplainsdem May 2023 #24

There's a similar theory about why aliens haven't made contact. Renew Deal May 2023 #26

AI can't think outside the box. We have Florida Man. Kaleva May 2023 #27

Florida Man thinks outside the box and into the bin. TheBlackAdder May 2023 #30

"(Superintelligent AIs) will pay about as much attention to us as we do to ants." LudwigPastorius May 2023 #28

For AI to 'view us as ants' it would first have to become sentient, else it's just program code. TheBlackAdder May 2023 #29

What exactly is "sentience"? Dave says May 2023 #32

Code, microcode, register switching, etc. can emulate aspects of a consciouis, but can't replace it. TheBlackAdder May 2023 #34

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Dave says May 2023 #35

And if it decides we're in its kitchen... ? n/t Whiskeytide May 2023 #31

that is an absurd statement to even make. edisdead May 2023 #33