Every time I discuss the topic of AI with others, I will be regarded as a freaky technology enthusiast, because I always show infinite longing for high-intelligence robots. I look forward to the technology with chips in the brain. I look forward to artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence as soon as possible. To be able to surpass exponentially, I look forward to the information of advanced alien civilization, and every time the other party will ask Black Mirror-style hypothetical questions to cross-examine, as if I have never seen Brave New World and Space Odyssey.
The problem is, the technology shown in Black Mirror isn't quite as transformative as I'd like it to be. They are still limited by humans, controlled by some people to control others. This level of technological advancement is not surprising at all. The technological innovation I'm looking forward to -- maybe it sounds really freaky -- is that AI can surpass human beings, have its own ideas, and be able to jump beyond human beings, achieve an exponential explosion of technology in a higher dimension, and create a new new era. Many cutting-edge AI researchers are cautious about strong AI. On the one hand, they are the people who understand the most technology, and on the other hand, they are full of concerns about technology. In the future scenario described by Nick Bostrom et al., if you set an artificial intelligence to make you smile, it may continue to stimulate your facial muscles and nerves to maintain a smile, turning you into a facial paralysis; if you let it protect you security, it might put you under house arrest because it's obviously the least risky way to security; if you let him solve the famine problem on earth, it might kill all of humanity...
I laughed out loud when I listened to his ted speech at the time - this is too arrogant, just like all science fiction movies, AI wants to be as arrogant as the setting of a human body, think about it, this is arrogant Isn't it still the weak AI's logic of finding the optimal solution through calculation? Since we are already discussing strong AI and even super AI, why can't we let go of our imaginations? AI is already learning and evolving itself at a speed that is many times faster than the human brain. Why do humans still think that? Will their ideas stay on the initial instructions? Why do you think they don't translate make you smile to make you happy?
Another concern of human beings about technology is that when AI becomes stronger, it will want to destroy human beings. People always say that AI at that time wanted to destroy human beings as simple as human beings eradicate ants, but the problem is that human beings are fine when they are full. why? Why kill ants? Moreover, it is of course easy to eliminate one ant, and it is not difficult to eliminate a group of ants, but it is not so simple to eliminate all the ants, right?
Interestingly, human imagination of extraterrestrial creatures also stays here, either colonizing them or fearing that they will colonize us. It seems that as long as there is contact, there must be a winner. One example is that Da Liu's dark forest theory is easy to be accepted. It is logically self-consistent and naturally one of the reasons, but the problem is that its logical basis is still human logic. Why do humans assume other intelligent creatures, especially more Advanced civilization, its level of thinking still stays at the human level?
Compared with the dark forest theory, I still prefer Da Liu's teenage heart in "Chao Wen Dao", where the most intelligent minds on the planet sacrificed themselves for a glimpse of the truth of the universe. why? Simple, to see. Even if it's just a glance, even if it's only for a second, it can't prove anything, and can't make any reaction, but seeing it, it's already a time spanning hundreds of millions of years in the universe.
This movie is about seeing like this, and what the heroine said at the end of the court hearing is the most beautiful expression I have ever seen of the meaning of seeing:
I had an experience, I can't even explain it. But everything I know as a human being, everything I am…tells me it was real. I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. A vision…of the universe…that tells us undeniably…how tiny and insignificant…and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us that we belong to something…that is greater than ourselves, that none of us are alone.
In my lifetime, expecting the contact of extraterrestrial creatures is still too sci-fi, and I can only hope for AI that is full of uncertainty. And my expectation for AI is to see it. If one day someone really flaps the wings of a butterfly, makes AI conscious, realizes a technological explosion, creates a new world that is completely different from the human world, and opens the eyes of human beings - just like living in a two-dimensional world. The ants on the plane experience the same life as a human being - what's wrong with dying instantly? I mean, it took millions of years for humans to evolve from walking on four legs to walking on two legs, and there is not much change in essence. Even the rapid development of technology in recent decades has not provided more imagination, and Newton's laws of hundreds of years ago are still the basis of many applied technologies today. If AI can bring about breakthroughs in basic disciplines, an explosion of technology, changes in the world beyond the limits of human imagination, or even a glimpse into the four-dimensional world, even if it is just a glance, even if the price is demise, I will. Would love to take a look at that.
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