Tag: Replicants

Next Up: Replicants

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Now, obviously, some of this could be moot if we achieve Artificial Superintelligence, but it seems as though the Next Big Thing will be a huge drive to create Replicants.

I believe this will happen in the 2030 range. As I mentioned, though, it’s possible that we’ll achieve ASI and, lulz, we’ll be more worried about our new AI overlord(s) than we are anything else.

A Replicant?

But once AI and android technology fuse and become affordable, the very people who won’t shut up about AGI and ASI these days, won’t shut up about the absolute need for “more human than human” replicants.

Fuck, is it going to be annoying.

There Is So Much Froth In The Online AI Community

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I don’t know what to make of some of the froth coming out of the online AI community. People are just getting really excited and demanding things that maybe they should be a bit more patient about.

People are skipping Artificial General Intelligence and absolutely demanding Artificial Superintelligence RIGHT FUCKING NOW. I think we might just need to slow our roll on that front.

Though, I will admit that by definition, if we reach AGI that may mean ASI is here, too because the AGI could recursively program itself so it’s smarter.

And, yet, I don’t even know what to make of any of this. What would ASI even look like, in real terms? By definition can there only be one ASI to rule humanity as a god, or could there be a number of ASI that rule humanity jointly? While I know that is the stuff of scifi, it is something to think about.

I find myself thinking about how people are going to demand Replicants once AI and robotics fuse together into one. That’s all people will talk about — the need for as lifelike as possible androids. Ugh.