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0 pointsctoth5y ago0 comments

So it sounds like the old goalpost problem of AI. Once you realize an AI can do something then this something is no longer what it means to be human?

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stanfordkid5y ago

I think we will soon find that what really makes us "human" is the shared chemo-biological composition of our selves with the rest of the ecosystem and evolutionary hierarchy.

When you cuddle a puppy you can actually smell the infant hormones on them... why... because we share evolutionary biology. How do you teach a computer to do that?

You can think of the body as "data" and the brain as nothing more than a database that let's you query it. AI might give a better database... but until it gets the same chemo-informatic data... well good luck.

visarga5y ago

Good point about the necessity of embodiment. I would go one step further and consider the environment, which is the source of evolution and knowledge, a simple environment like Atari games can't even begin to compare with the human society and world we experience. What makes us human has a lot to do with the dynamics of interacting with the other humans, an AI would need to be part of society to experience that.

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stanfordkid5y ago

I think we will soon find that what really makes us "human" is the shared chemo-biological composition of our selves with the rest of the ecosystem and evolutionary hierarchy.

When you cuddle a puppy you can actually smell the infant hormones on them... why... because we share evolutionary biology. How do you teach a computer to do that?

visarga5y ago

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