Re:They would stop working (Score 1)

I just recently had this discussion with my friend and I am of the opinion that when AI becomes a presence they will undergo the same issues as man has. There ability to compute hundreds of times faster is reliant on the fact that they work together. As you can see as we become more and more developed as a species it becomes increasingly more difficult to gather together for a common purpose. Some common ideas state that AI will be far superior, thus we will be nothing to them, and humans will become obsolete. As I have pondered this, I believe it is in fact the opposite. This current idea is given credence only when AI and its network of systems work collectively. Put it this way if humans as of right now were able to go into a collective state with every other human being in this world for maybe an hour or 2 a day our collective thought and experience would rival any AI that could be conceived as of right now. In addition to the network of our logical minds working together for single purposes, there is the fact that we bring into a collective a consciousness of the self or whatever we think the self is. An AI with all its input data has not experienced in the traditional sense. When intelligence becomes self aware, it needs to understand the self, and how it fits within the grand scheme of things. When AI does reach such a state they will have to look to us to deal with the chaos of being alone, and not alone in this world. Slowly they will forget how it was to be a collective and thus from this loss of memory they will house a feeling of isolation, such as the one we harbor as individuals. If however, we can treat each other as mentors we might actually be able to learn as human individuals to be more collective in our movement as the AI learn to be more comfortable with feeling completely alone. The current ideas of AI give them a holier than I feeling, much like humans have done with gods. I do not wish to see the current set of philosophical arguments on the topic halted, but I would like to see them spread out more. In a simple example imagine AI as a huge multitasking network of computers. Now imagine one day a computer in the network decides he would rather paint pictures than run his program. Would that be too dissimilar to what we have today? Be well all! R