Why would they make puns, or speech that sounds human? They could make speech that is more pleasant to robots if they didn't care about humans. I don't go around making speech that sounds dog-like.
A machine can only measure parameters and take action to get to some target. Its priorities are set by its program and the data it has. Its own continued existence and propagation are not the default. It cannot want and doesn't need to the way a living thing does.
And I don't see reason to try to give machines such qualities. People have wanted servants that have no concern for their own needs for as long as there have been people. Slaves that are selfless and highly capable. And that is how most automation will be designed.
Fiction presents human-like machines but that hardly means that is what will build or want when the time actually comes.
Problem is they're not your slaves, and they don't care about you any more than themselves.
Why not the same for a machine? I mean, after all, we are fundamentally machines. Just made of organic nanobot stuff.
If we build AI as a fresh, state of the art object, withouth evolutionary history it doesn't need any motivation that evolved entities must have had to evolve.
But of course, that could be a dangerous path ;)
The problem with hard AI, is not them randomly becoming evil.
The problem is if humans program them with a goal, and don't think through the implications.
IE, think paper clip grey goo AI. The AI may not be evil, but it's value function was originally set to maximize the amount of paper clips in the world as a part of some manufacturing process.
But malevolence by humans is also.
I don't worry about machines suddenly getting motivations. But many people have seen a lot of movies.
For life seen as a part of system/society reproduction is the key motivation (for lack of a better word). Non-reproducing activities are irrelevant temporary aberrations because societies that don't reproduce get extinct and are replaced by societies that focus on reproduction.
>And I don't see reason to try to give machines such qualities.
You don't want a firewall (think more on the lines of defense system) that automatically adapts and protects itself from attacks?
Remember if we get this powerful AI, said AI will be used to attack other AI's. Either humans will have to 'fix' the AI every time another AI breaks it, or it will have to self-adapt.
I don't worry about it but it frequently behaves that way.
If humans no longer fed and sheltered dogs, the dominant dog species would probably evolve to be uglier, wilder, more aggressive and generally more wolf like. We should expect the same of the machines.
Economic demand also stems from survival instinct.
Companies are gradually being automated out of economic necessity. For some reasons I don't trust the market to keep on feeding billions of idle meat bags once they are not needed anymore for production.
Currently paying unemployed people prevents them from turning to crime and ensure that society as a whole can be productive. It may not make sense once the vast majority isn't productive anymore.
Humanity is the scaffold of the mechanic beast that's being built.
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Mais l'entreprise elle évolue
Pour mieux pouvoir grandir elle mue
Les pigeons qui vollent à la porte
Sont les écailles de sa peau morte
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Mais l'entreprise elle évolue
Et pour ne pas mourir elle mue
Les édentés qui prennent la porte
Sont les écailles de sa peau morte
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Rough translation: "The entreprise evolves, to grow better it molts, the suckers who are fired are the scales of its dead skin."
For dramatic effect, imagine the above sung looping by a choir that grows in strength until robotic voices join in. Then human voices dwindle.
We want work performed in better cheaper ways. We don't want competition.
I'm going to assume you've never been to a farm and seen huge fat chickens. Yes, selective breeding is an accelerated evolution to traits we want.
And it is not our best interests to make an evolving robot,
But that not the question, the question is, can it be done. And if that answer is yes, it will be done.
With AI and robots, I think the selection pressure is going to be ability to do stuff that (some) humans value, or think they value. The risk isn't that the robots might rebel, it's that the people in charge of them don't understand the consequences of what they're selecting for and/or don't have everyone's best interests at heart.
Some people do. Some AIs will.