AI is simply the continuation of evolution. Biological organisms are nothing more than reorganized matter that is efficient at extracting energy and reproduction, this just continues that. Humans can no more stop this than the other 99.99% of species that have gone extinct could. It sucks as a species to see your own obsolescence but it is what it is.
AI is simply the continuation of evolution. Biological organisms are nothing more than reorganized matter that is efficient at extracting energy and reproduction, this just continues that. Humans can no more stop this than the other 99.99% of species that have gone extinct could. It sucks as a species to see your own obsolescence but it is what it is.
Evolution occurs over millennia, not decades. Neither is any species in control of natural evolution. To equate humans charging into technological change with natural evolution is a complete mischaracterization of the natural phenomenon. As for accepting "seeing one's own obsolescence," I'm not worried about my own obsolescence. I can accept that. But the prospect knowing that our grandchildren may have to endure a dystopian world due to the hubris of transhumanists makes me livid. It's just more of the standard "move fast and break things" and "disrupt" mentality of Silicon Valley, which has already proven to have horrible "unintended" consequences.
What I am saying is that this is the next phase of evolution. The evolution of evolution. If biological evolution is to create species that are best suited to survive and reproduce and intelligence is an outcome of that process then the fact that intelligence is leaving humans and moving into machines is just the next step. And yes, that is happening much faster that traditional natural selection. Tool use is accepted as part of evolution, this should be too.
As for our grandchildren I share your concern but evolution has never cared about species or individuals. Its cold and cruel but it has always been that way.
AI is simply the continuation of evolution. Biological organisms are nothing more than reorganized matter that is efficient at extracting energy and reproduction, this just continues that. Humans can no more stop this than the other 99.99% of species that have gone extinct could. It sucks as a species to see your own obsolescence but it is what it is.
Evolution occurs over millennia, not decades. Neither is any species in control of natural evolution. To equate humans charging into technological change with natural evolution is a complete mischaracterization of the natural phenomenon. As for accepting "seeing one's own obsolescence," I'm not worried about my own obsolescence. I can accept that. But the prospect knowing that our grandchildren may have to endure a dystopian world due to the hubris of transhumanists makes me livid. It's just more of the standard "move fast and break things" and "disrupt" mentality of Silicon Valley, which has already proven to have horrible "unintended" consequences.
What I am saying is that this is the next phase of evolution. The evolution of evolution. If biological evolution is to create species that are best suited to survive and reproduce and intelligence is an outcome of that process then the fact that intelligence is leaving humans and moving into machines is just the next step. And yes, that is happening much faster that traditional natural selection. Tool use is accepted as part of evolution, this should be too.
As for our grandchildren I share your concern but evolution has never cared about species or individuals. Its cold and cruel but it has always been that way.