AI: ARTIFICIAL, ALIEN OR BOTH?
NOW that’s GOT to have caught your interest! In our world of increasing AI presence, is it artificial or alien or both?
Let’s start with artificial, meaning perhaps autonomous more than non-human, since currently humans write the basic code that’s used in artificial intelligence operations. Autonomous, meaning perhaps that once awakened it doesn’t need a lot of continued human input other than to reboot or fix erroneous code.
Now let’s tackle alien, meaning here not necessarily from other life forms in the universe, but rather code typically written initially by humans, that, in the process of an AI “learning” and adapting, might result in code that is no longer meaningful or even readable by humans. It’s this form of AI that I’m most interested in. Check out https://news.mit.edu/2019/toward-arti... to start, then jump ahead to https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest.... But what I’m talking about is https://www.fastcompany.com/90132632/.... That is AIs can be tasked with beginning anew, creating their own coding from scratch that ultimately can’t be read or understood by human software engineers. A “good” thing? Or a “bad” thing?
My main concern is with the “meaning” behind AI code; that is, it’s purpose, and in the long run, it’s side effects. Especially so, if the AI code doesn’t have a human “empathic” component, which, to my knowledge, has yet to be designed or constructed. And I don’t just mean empathy for other AIs. I mean humans. The only thing that seems to stand between humans and their penchant for self-destruction is empathy — the ability to walk in another’s moccasins and feel the sharp pebbles as they push into the soles (substitute “souls” if you like).
Which brings me to my closing question: Do AIs have “souls?” Or, more poignantly, if they don’t at first, can they create their own? I’m serious here. I’m busy writing a Sci-Fu novel with A. G. Hayes called “68 Via Condotti: Vatican Inc” in which the Pope secretly visits a Brazilian AI manufacturing plant with exactly that question in mind. If AIs have souls, then it’s the Church and by delegation the Pope’s obligation to “save those souls.” Finally ask, from what? Then go figure and grab a copy of:
68 Via Condotti: Book One: Eternity Ltd
Let’s start with artificial, meaning perhaps autonomous more than non-human, since currently humans write the basic code that’s used in artificial intelligence operations. Autonomous, meaning perhaps that once awakened it doesn’t need a lot of continued human input other than to reboot or fix erroneous code.
Now let’s tackle alien, meaning here not necessarily from other life forms in the universe, but rather code typically written initially by humans, that, in the process of an AI “learning” and adapting, might result in code that is no longer meaningful or even readable by humans. It’s this form of AI that I’m most interested in. Check out https://news.mit.edu/2019/toward-arti... to start, then jump ahead to https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest.... But what I’m talking about is https://www.fastcompany.com/90132632/.... That is AIs can be tasked with beginning anew, creating their own coding from scratch that ultimately can’t be read or understood by human software engineers. A “good” thing? Or a “bad” thing?
My main concern is with the “meaning” behind AI code; that is, it’s purpose, and in the long run, it’s side effects. Especially so, if the AI code doesn’t have a human “empathic” component, which, to my knowledge, has yet to be designed or constructed. And I don’t just mean empathy for other AIs. I mean humans. The only thing that seems to stand between humans and their penchant for self-destruction is empathy — the ability to walk in another’s moccasins and feel the sharp pebbles as they push into the soles (substitute “souls” if you like).
Which brings me to my closing question: Do AIs have “souls?” Or, more poignantly, if they don’t at first, can they create their own? I’m serious here. I’m busy writing a Sci-Fu novel with A. G. Hayes called “68 Via Condotti: Vatican Inc” in which the Pope secretly visits a Brazilian AI manufacturing plant with exactly that question in mind. If AIs have souls, then it’s the Church and by delegation the Pope’s obligation to “save those souls.” Finally ask, from what? Then go figure and grab a copy of:
68 Via Condotti: Book One: Eternity Ltd
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