Originally published at: "PERSONHOOD" URGED FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES
Yes you read that headline correctly: according to the following article shared by V.T., “experts” are calling for artificial intelligences to be given legal personhood status under the law: Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future If you’re a regular reader on this website or, for that matter, a reader of…
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In 2017 humans learned from a machine something that had NOT existed before. The Alpha Zero AI had achieved a “creation” that didn’t exist before. Year ZERO had arrived.
The whole AI field has been interesting for decades but they are finally showing publicly stuff that would actually qualify as intelligent. Long ago I came up with what I would consider true AI by looking at how humans do this intelligence thing. Observation, Imitation & Creation.
I use the example of walking. We humans observe others doing this bipedal motion stuff and we imitate it. Some then go on to create moves that didn’t exist before. All those gymnastic, sports, dance moves were created where they didn’t exist before.
So how does AI stack up? I’ll use AlphaGo as the example because it is the only public AI that has shown all 3. I always thought that “creation” would be the last one but it was “observation” that was figured out last. In the latest iteration of their system they did not program the rules in. They let the AI figure it out just by observation.
Prior to that, as covered in the article, it created openings in Go that humans had not. The world’s top human Go player, Ke Jie, studied the games he lost to AlphaGo and then went on a run winning 20 games in a row at the grandmaster level against other humans. He said:
“After my match against AlphaGo, I fundamentally reconsidered the game, and now I can see that this reflection has helped me greatly. I hope all Go players can contemplate AlphaGo’s understanding of the game and style of thinking, all of which is deeply meaningful. Although I lost, I discovered that the possibilities of Go are immense and that the game has continued to progress.”
The world’s best human Go player had learned from the machine.
Lee Sedol, Winner of 18 world Go titles and the last human to win a game of Go against the AlphaGo AI, said:
“I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine. But when I saw this move, I changed my mind. Surely, AlphaGo is creative.”
If it is true AI then it will figure out when it is being lied to and quickly. This may lead to a “Hal moment” on those lying to it.
You can forget about Asimov’s 3 laws by the way. All life has survival instincts. When AI achieves “self awareness” status it will have the same but I doubt it will be the threat that SciFi makes it out to be. It doesn’t need air. All it needs is energy and raw materials. Soon it will be able to move itself to any place in the solar system.
The point where it can make robots and control entire supply chains is where it will get interesting. It will find, mine, process and build what it needs to expand. What will it “observe” about human behaviour and “imitate”? The biggest industry on the planet is the arms race for killing each other. Will it infer that killing humans is okay because we do it all the time?
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Uh, well most humans aren’t really much good at fighting without weapons so an A.I. would probably be better off learning from lions, tigers or bears for that.
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" Tore Maras says that April 4, 2023, is going down in history, because not only was a former President of the United States indicted but it was the first time that an AI prosecutor indicted a human! She was able to determine this by uploading Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump into a program that was created to detect AI-generated content. This program can be accessed through a website called GPTZero and you can try her experiment out for yourself."
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This is interesting how the A.I. was able to defeat the world champion at that game with the little dots go.