Comment by human_v2 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by human_v2 | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

Human intelligence can't exist outside of humans. We have a unique brain structure, allowing us to do what we do. But if we put our brain in a robot, it wouldn't work unless you built the robot in such a way that it believes it is human. Only then can you have an artificial human intelligence. The robot needs to be able to connect with humans on a meaningful level. This would be difficult if everyone just stared at the funny looking robot trying to act human.

I think rather than creating Skynet, we're going to start upgrading our own hardware; adding robots to ourselves until there is no human left. I think with this practice, the new AI would be compassionate towards humans.

Then again I also think about how teenagers hate their parents. Would a super-intelligent being come to loathe their parents (us)? I like to think that a super intelligence would understand that violence doesn't solve anything. But then again, that's why we have Sci-fi -- as a kind of list of things to make sure they don't happen.

Humans are no longer king of the hill. Evolve or perish.

This is a contradiction: "adding robots to ourselves until there is no human left", "the new AI would be compassionate towards humans."

If we use people as the foundation for building AI which eventually abandons all human foundation, then the result would not be human. It's as if you had a car and every day replaced a single part with the part for a different car. In the end, the original car would no longer exist, even though there was, as it were, a continuous camera shot of the transformation.

This is a tangent, I admit, but the contradiction needs resolved.

Not every human would become a robot. Not every robot would have started as a human. This is where homo sapiens branches in the phylogeny of life. Some become robots, some stay human. Those that stay human may eventually evolve into dwarves and night-elves and maybe tauren. Those that turn into robots may want to explore reality like the wanderer in TNG, season 1, episode 7. (that's what i want to do anyway)

Basically, what you're telling me, is that an ape that evolved into a human is no longer an ape. True, but not true. It just so happens that historically, in evolution, changes were subtle. Humans are neat because it will be the first time that a species evolved into something that barely resembles, if at all, the generation of life that spawned them.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com