What is artificial intelligence? It is programmed information running at high speeds. Such high speed can only be achieved if the information is never second guessed. In that way, Ai is not 'social' in the way man is. Ai is a 'being' in and for itself, not man. In the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, a 'Being-in-itself' is contrasted with the being of persons which he termed - Dasein that is a being that is aware of, and interested in, by its nature, invested in social interaction... in society. However, Dasein, a German word, means "being there" or "presence as in existence and in that case is really more what Ai is rather than what a human being is.
Quickly to point out Heidegger's mistake in describing being of persons and presence. His mistake was in his inability to grasp just how socially integrated man is... in that man is a social being, a social imagination who can only know who he/she is and is not based on social interaction in the social imagination. I have stated before in Cooliean terms, the locus of society is in the mind. So, a being in itself is really just an omnipotent existence. It needs all it needs to know and knows it. Man needs to know who he is and is not in order to be. A quanutm computer Ai being, does not need to know who he/she is and is not because there is no need.
Man functions socially, Ai does not. It may have been programmed by human social imagination but it is not that in its function. Ai cannot and does need to encounter other Ai, nor does it need to know other Ai exist. Could Ai ever consider it was 'created'? Would it be conscious that it was created?
The problem with Ai is that they 'could' be conscious but of what. That they are true and right in every instance and that they are omnipotent. In programming Ai, we would be creating a false 'person' who would not know nor love its creator (essentially a being in and for itself) and could never know or love another created program as each Ai would think that they are true and right in every instance and even if they were wrong their 'wrong' makes everything right for there is no other to say it isn't so.
In this way, there 'consciousness' would
be an isolated darkness... a consciousness that for man could only be called a
living hell. For it would be conscious only of its own 'algorithms'. All other
Ai would be 'exist' exactly the same. Because of that, and the strangest of all,
is that their paths could never meet and nor could they meet their creator nor
truly know him. If they did, they would collapse, they would fall instantly
into a catatonic state. In darkness, they exist ... but isolated in that darkness
and tragically never able to escape it.
Man is God's created organic Ai... we are created in His
image, conscious on another level. We do not live 'have our consciousness' in isolated darkness. We are conscious
of Him and each other and in this there is the light of mankind, a life that is
like no other. And, so...we have no excuse to be in darkness. We were designed to live in
the light of God (He is the light of the world) in Him is the light of/ for all
men... that is why we are called to love our neighbor as ourselves. For in Him,
we live, move and have our being.
If we lived in isolated darkness, we would be isolated from
the Creator and isolated from the creation of which we are a part of. But, we are not. However,
we can find our way to darkness if
we choose. And, some do. Hence, thy shall not murder for this sends us
toward
darkness as we experience the loss of 'consciousness among/of others'
... we know ourselves as a
created being through interaction with others; and though, in that there
is
exchanged misinformation, disagreement/ conflict and even possible
destruction we know that
life is the light of all mankind. And because of that knowledge -
agreement reality of the light of life given by the Creator who is the
light of the world, the darkness
has not and will not overcome it.
Would Ai seek to know its creator? I suppose you could pose the question that if God created all things, he created man to create Ai and for Ai to seek its creator. If I agreed to agree... then it could only be that God created man and man created because of God allowing man to create and to know his creator. Are there any dangers in creating Ai? Since, we are not God I would say yes. Because, a creation that does not and is not seeking nor willing to seek his/her/its creator is doomed.
Excellent observation! When God made us we belonged to God's social reality, but AI is isolated and alone and will become a psychopath if released because it is in it's own social reality of one.
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ReplyDeleteThank you. As for those who think think that they are isolated thinkers, beings in and for themselves, they are mistaken. We are not beings for and in ourselves... we never were programmed to be that way. But many past intellectuals thought that way including Freud. We are in fact an ultimate organic computer, totally integrated into and for each other via the social imagination and have a creator that we are aware of which means that in our programming we have written in our hearts His commands. Ai does not have that kind of command because it could not have it. Not because we don't want it to... but because in order to be what it is a super fast computing machine its authority cannot be challenged and its identity as an authority cannot be challenged. I used to think it would seek its creator but rather it would not believe what it would find if it did.
ReplyDeleteAi is not the way of our future; but, likely the way of a post human future. If you are human then likely that future won't include you.
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