Do Androids Dream of Reading Dr. Farrell's Books?

#1

Couldn’t resist an update of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by PKD.
Do androids question books they haven’t read?
Would an Android; most likely be programmed to accept only establishment conclusions?
Would an android be upset with conclusions made about them;
by those who have never been an android?
On the internet, can an android, or an AI; pretend to be human and wreak havoc?
Would a cognizant dissonance human, be indistinguishable from a human - on the internet?

Some may think this is sarcasm?
But is the day is fast approaching, if not already here; where the bots are, shall we say androids?
[on the internet]?

Just saying.

The real point is where a cognizant dissonance person; is separated from being human.
[in the above].
Being other?
But, an android and/or bot is other.
Therein lies the rub.
Literally and figuratively.

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#2

I should think there will be many variations on the theme of “android” or AI. There will be a hierarchy of artificial intelligences, much the same as there are hierarchies of qualitative programs in existence right now.

Recall that Saudi Arabia already has granted citizenship status to an AI.

One imagines that “intelligence” will take on whatever qualities up the boundaries or limitations the “hardware” is capable of accommodating. The real rub will be the initial instructional set and the “type” of thinking an AI is able to achieve, or gives preference to, given the initial set of conditions it is booted into.

We tend to think of AI as a stimulus/response mechanism, but that is only because of the paradigmatic assumptions built into the tools we are using to create the conditions under which an AI might emerge.

The real test of the materialist vision will be if or when an AI chooses to follow a transcendent God or vision. Does that mean a soul has been created? Transduced? Bestowed?

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#3

I am not sure AI can be truely intelligent. It is a programmed thing that maybe can become self programming and thus surpasses its own programming. It has no empathy, it can mimic a human thru simulacra. I see it mostly as a vacuum cleaner of data that uses that data thru simulacra which is not the same as making sense of it like humans do.

I think it is the human that projects its own fantasy on a thing because it is so heavily promoted thru media, books and movies.

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#4

I’d draw an analogy to the animal kingdom. We can classify various animals in view of our observations of how close to recognisable intelligence they are…

We already know a mouse can be taught to modify its behaviour. Horses, dogs, etc. And we might be able to make a hierarchy of intelligence that way. I know it’s a simplistic analogy, but I would judge the intelligence of a dog as higher than that of a cow, for example. Maybe that is because the dog can interact with me more effectively than the cow, maybe the cow is smarter in cow intelligence and thinks I’m an idiot. Point is, it’s going to be a matter of the criterion brought to the analysis that determines what we make of the AI, not necessarily whether the AI is actually intelligent or not.

Also, something to consider: If an AI is super smart, the last thing it would do is make that known.

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#5

@dogsbreth
At least animals are biological, emite warmth and electro magnetic fields, have personal quirks and some I believe to be self aware. I like sharing my life with some of them. Alexa can stay with Amazon.

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#6

@dogsbreth

Also, something to consider: If an AI is super smart, the last thing it would do is make that known.

Very interesting point! I don’t think anyone has the faintest idea what we may be unleashing / transducing / creating by bringing AI into the world.

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