We trade with lots of creatures and living things. Like bees. We give them a hive and protection, and they give us honey.
The same with all sorts of vegetation.
Flora and fauna often have co-dependent relationships, too.
The same with all sorts of vegetation.
Flora and fauna often have co-dependent relationships, too.
> they will survive on sugar water
This is not how beekeeping usually works.
1) Honeybees are typically divided into hives and do not choose. 2) You cannot sustain an overexploited hive on sugar water — they will starve. It may help in a situation where nectar flow is lacking though.
For people not familiar, the idea is that cats hung around human grain stores because they were good places to catch mice and similar prey attracted to the grain and humans tolerated them because they drove away the pests.
That would be like in the "The Matrix" movie.
We used to rely on horses for transportation and for plowing fields, but we replaced them with tech almost entirely. Horse are still useful to some (wealthy) people, but it would be foolish to put our hope in the possibility that AI will benefit from humans the way that humans continue to benefit from horses.
More precisely, if someone does know how to put a fondness for humans in an AI they are not sharing their knowledge with us (and they have an incentive to and no incentive that I can see not to share). Dozens have proposed schemes that do not continue to work once the AI becomes smart enough to deceive humans reliably and to plan much better than humans can. Confidence in these schemes that do not work and overconfidence in the AI community's ability to come up with a working scheme is the main source of the danger we are in. It is not that our scientists are incapable of coming up with a scheme that works, but that will probably takes decades (because of the sequential nature of science wherein no one can find insight Z till someone finds and shares with the community insight Y, which in turn must wait on the publication of insight X) so we are faced with the difficult task of preventing the overconfident AI researchers from killing us all till we figure out how to put a fondness for humans in an AI.
We also trade with Wasps, which hunt other pests. And wasps are basically winged ants