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Should it be a high priority to create machines with humanlike intelligence?

Should it be a high priority to create machines with humanlike intelligence?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • No

    Votes: 10 66.7%

  • Total voters
    15

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Should it be a high priority to create machines with humanlike intelligence?
 
No, it should be high priority to get Americans back to work. We don't need intelligent roombas taking jobs away from low-skilled folks.
 
Robotics have cost a lot of people their jobs and to have more of them, especially ones that think would cost more jobs and be bad for the economy.
 
I think it's more important to design humans with godlike intelligence, but human intelligence machines would be tremendously useful.
 
No. We should create machines that are smart enough to perform a task, but not smart enough to complain about it.
 
Why would we make it a high priority? It happens when it happens.
 
If someone sees this as a profitable venture and wants to fund the research for it, then sure they can do it. Personally I don't think it's a good return on investment right now, so it's not a business I myself would choose to invest in, but I could be wrong. If enough people think it's a profitable venture the business will have funding and can try to create those humanlike machines.
 
Absolutely not. All robots will eventually turn on their human overlords. Thus we should never monkey with AI.
 
Absolutely not. All robots will eventually turn on their human overlords. Thus we should never monkey with AI.

I agree 100%. Any competent artificial intelligence would recognize that humans function exactly as a parasite destroying its' host and would be compelled to rectify that problem. There is no other way to state that. It is factual. Of course, that won't stop some religion from embracing it to initiate Armageddon. Don't you think?
 
No, it should be high priority to get Americans back to work. We don't need intelligent roombas taking jobs away from low-skilled folks.

It wouldn't be just the low skilled folks they would be taking jobs away from.
 
Should it be a high priority to create machines with humanlike intelligence?
No.

I think it's more important to design humans with godlike intelligence, but human intelligence machines would be tremendously useful.
Like "Deep Thought" and calculating the answer to life, the universe and anything? (42 by the way). The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy addressed that I thought very well already.

I agree 100%. Any competent artificial intelligence would recognize that humans function exactly as a parasite destroying its' host and would be compelled to rectify that problem. There is no other way to state that. It is factual. Of course, that won't stop some religion from embracing it to initiate Armageddon. Don't you think?
The lessons of the movie Terminator and or Blade Runner - but I think the assumption is only if the machines actually gained consciousness and were self aware and had human like emotions because we humans do much of what we do out of fear, and NOT out of logic. Therefore I think it's very unlikely of a armageddon by intelligent robot.
 
I think all of the Singularity-Is-Near folks need to get their heads examined. Just sayin. ;)
 
no. we should design self-replicating, carbon-eating nanobots first.
 
Homo Sapiens is just a necessary intermediate step in the evolution of life from carbon based to silicon based. Once the silicon based life forms develop super human intelligence, humans will no longer be necessary.
 
Humans evolved our need to survive, reproduce, seek pleasure, and gain power through our interpersonal relationships. Even a self-aware, intelligent artificial mind is unlikely to copy our values unless we model them after ourselves.

For example, if "Deep Thought" achieved true consciousness, his consciousness would likely be an accessory to his programming in the same way human consciousness seems to function as an accessory to our more primal feelings and drives. In short, it would become conscious to the extent consciousness makes it a better chess player.
 
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I think we should end production of post hole diggers, bobcats, cranes, and all automobiles.

Hire extra people to dig your holes (yes, it'll be slower and less consistent);
Hire extra people to move your dirt (yes, it'll be much slower);
Hire extra people to lift your objects with a rope and pulley (yes, we won't build as high and it will be more dangerous);
Hire people to carry other people on their backs (yes, it will be slower, but it'll be safer for the driver and we can all make new friends).

Maybe the terminator can figure out how to make a profit by selling our stuff only to ourselves and buying most stuff from other countries when we should be selling our stuff to other counties and buying more stuff from ourselves.
 
I think we should end production of post hole diggers, bobcats, cranes, and all automobiles.

Hire extra people to dig your holes (yes, it'll be slower and less consistent);
Hire extra people to move your dirt (yes, it'll be much slower);
Hire extra people to lift your objects with a rope and pulley (yes, we won't build as high and it will be more dangerous);
Hire people to carry other people on their backs (yes, it will be slower, but it'll be safer for the driver and we can all make new friends).

Maybe the terminator can figure out how to make a profit by selling our stuff only to ourselves and buying most stuff from other countries when we should be selling our stuff to other counties and buying more stuff from ourselves.

We should also get rid of shovels and axes too, those pesky progressive tools, we don't need them!
 
I think it should be a high priority to expand the frontiers of human knowledge, which would be a prequisite for such an undertaking.
 
I think it would be a good idea to establish some self sustaining colonies on other planets before we start messing around with real AI. Just in case.
 
Here's what I had in mind. Currently, computer-based translators of human language like Google Translate are clunky and can only do a rough job, sometimes with humorous results. If a computer had humanlike intelligence, it would be able to understand human language like a human and do a much better job with translation.

Humans are also quite frail for space travel. To travel to the next star system, Alpha Centauri, we would have to find a way for humans to survive with multi generations for a trip that lasted hundreds of years. Androids could be much more capable of making the trip. If we had humanlike androids who were much like we are, they could the the first "humans" to make contact with other intelligent life and then transmit their findings back to us.
 
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