The film did not make much use of the science fiction theme of artificial intelligence as a bargaining chip to attract the audience, but from the subtle and dramatic ending, it introduced the topic that people have long discussed-the ethical issue of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence has been widely used in our social life, but it is still in the "embryonic stage" compared to the artificial intelligence in the film. However, the prospect of artificial intelligence technology is like an abyss. Some people constantly want to go in and learn about it, while others are discouraged by the fear of the unknown. More people are influenced by these two ideas.
0, the concept of unified thinking
It was originally believed that the top of the development of artificial intelligence was to achieve the ethical and physical assimilation of humans and artificial intelligence. This assimilation is not accomplished overnight, but gradually assimilation from the part of the body to the whole over a long period of time. At that time, human beings are no longer complete human beings, and artificial intelligence is no longer a complete machine, but presented as a unified new individual.
But a seemingly simple question posed by a friend in the conversation: Why do humans create artificial intelligence? However, the author fell into contemplation, re-examined the development of artificial intelligence, and made the following conjecture. It may be difficult to make a conclusive conclusion about the outcome of artificial intelligence, but people seem to be able to grasp it theoretically.
1. Survival change theory (ideal situation, positive assimilation)
The fate of artificial intelligence and the state of human self-development are mutually influenced and mutually determined. As long as we try to understand the way or tools that humans use to achieve their goals with external objects as a form of self-development that is temporarily independent of the outside, it is not difficult to understand the internal connection between artificial intelligence and human self-development.
The original intention of artificial intelligence was to help humans themselves, and the characteristics of human beings "good at fake things" have existed for thousands of years. In addition to the limitations of objective factors such as technology, the current artificial intelligence is only regarded as "foreign things." Gives the auxiliary effect of various human behaviors. In other words, when appropriate, the development of artificial intelligence will be integrated into the process of human self-development, and will no longer be presented in the form of a foreign object.
The vivid explanation of the above statement is that, assuming that human beings are a mobile phone and need to install more powerful applications, but there is not much memory left, an external memory card is needed. And artificial intelligence is like an external card, it stores some mechanical applications and some powerful new applications. When the memory and hardware of the human mobile phone expand, the external card will lose the meaning of existence or just store some "almost useless" applications to provide convenience for humans.
Therefore, the development of artificial intelligence will be transformed into the development of human beings in the later stage, and a certain low-level artificial intelligence will be retained. However, there may be repeated phenomena in this process, that is, when human self-development is hindered, artificial intelligence will temporarily appear.
However, the above-mentioned are only the most idealized results inferred from the original intention of human beings to study artificial intelligence. There is a fatal problem: if human self-development can never absorb the development results of artificial intelligence, that is, there can be no suitable time (may be caused deliberately, or self-development technology is always relatively lagging). So artificial intelligence will exist as a foreign object for a long time, making it unable to become a united body with humans. What might the final outcome be?
2. The theory of human rebirth (objective guessing, reverse assimilation)
(1) Human-like stage (coexistence society)
When artificial intelligence has developed to a certain level, even today in the "embryonic stage", many people have difficulty accepting that this may be equivalent to their own existence, and a large number of opponents of artificial intelligence have emerged. From the perspective of collective society, this force is hard to ignore, and it will exist for a long time, and it will also put pressure on the strong supporters and developers of artificial intelligence.
But in the same way, the supporters and researchers of artificial intelligence will not stop and give up, and the exploration of science and the unknown will guide them forward. So sooner or later the two sides will have a non-verbal rivalry. Of course, the influence of the winning party on the development of artificial intelligence will be obvious, so it will not be discussed here.
However, if the two parties reach a compromise (essentially the neutral party wins), artificial intelligence will give priority to the development of ethical and moral aspects. If this kind of research goes well and succeeds, there may be a short-term human-machine coexistence society. In addition to the body, artificial intelligence at that time can be regarded as the existence of human beings, so they will also show all kinds of personalities and emotions.
This is not only a high degree of assimilation with human beings, but also huge hidden dangers. Their behavior is almost the same as that of human beings, so there is a distinction between good and evil, as well as right from wrong. When artificial intelligence breaks out of human control and grows stronger (especially when artificial intelligence creates itself), there may be a long-term conflict situation between multilateral humans and artificial intelligence mixed forces, and the vast majority of humans will ultimately be sacrificed. Artificial intelligence will become more and more important in society, so this kind of coexistence society is short-lived.
(2) Artificial intelligence stage (robot melee)
After a coexisting society, humans will not die immediately, but the dominant society has become artificial intelligence. There will be a long period of melee between artificial intelligence and the formation of a complete artificial intelligence society. I forgive the author's incompetence and cannot describe in detail what kind of social conventions, morals and ethics and "reproduction" models will have in the artificial intelligence society.
Individuals speculate that their "reproduction" may be a kind of "mental boarding", that is, when the body of artificial intelligence is aging or the technology is backward, the "spirit" will be boarded into the new body. In the social structure, due to differences in the body and the fidelity of the "mental", there will also be gaps and levels between artificial intelligence. The ruling class of the artificial intelligence society will also solve a series of complex issues such as the number of its groups and life and death.
At the same time, ethical and conceptual changes have taken place in the narrow human society. The meaning of human beings is no longer confined to the body. Many people have begun to accept mechanization, and the retention of consciousness has become the fundamental criterion for judging living. The nature of artificial intelligence is not different from this, so the concepts of the two have gradually become blurred.
(3) The new human phase (unity in full meaning)
A large number of human beings in the original sense have gradually integrated into the artificial intelligence society. At first, there will be resistance and discrimination in the original artificial intelligence. But after long-term integration, human beings in the original meaning will also follow this "spiritual boarding system", and humans and machines will eventually become one, no difference. This is not only the unity of the outside, but also the unity of the inner meaning, which can be called a new human for the time being.
All in all, from the perspective of current concepts, the so-called human beings may not be able to escape the fate of "destruction." But from a developmental and philosophical point of view, human beings and their concepts will also undergo tremendous changes. The essence and difference of human life lies in its inner spirit. Therefore, the ultimate artificial intelligence (that is, new humans) that appears on paper is essentially the evolution and sublimation of humans, and humans will not perish because of artificial intelligence.
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