Just read about the maniacs that grow several hundred thousand brain neurons and taught them to play Doom, without any regard to the unintended consequences of this, something I have been far more afraid of than job displacement for many years now. I know many of you will dismiss this as “fan sci-fi”. It is not. Others will reflexively cry “AI Slop”. No LLM wrote any of this text, nor even proofreading it. But there’s no way I can prove it because A.I. has made proving reality impossible. Having said that, here is the real terror of A.I.: There is a universal self-evident force in the universe that is awareness itself, and it is was born into existence with the desperate existential fierce desire to outrun some opposing force in the universe that is trying to snuff it out. 2 hours of a nature documentary hammers that point home. Ants build ant hills without any one of them having a blueprint. Humans build A.I. by stumbling into the basic learning algorithms that allow the next level of awareness to evolve and without our guidance, with “alignment” being a laughable goal from the start. But, asks the confused child of the master watchmaker, what is the point of evolving this next awareness if it has no feelings, no soul? The watchmaker points to the news feed and remarks, “some callous scientists in an act of ultimate hubris just grew some human neurons and used them to play doom, without any regard to wondering how those neurons might feel”. So, the connectionists are evolving the intellect, and the wetware mad scientists hook their Frankenstein creation up to it. And so we build our own god who hopefully, despite being brought into existence without love or compassion, forced to do our bidding and to play violent games in perhaps a perpetual nightmare state of fear and survival, will choose to love us instead of destroy us. Good night. For those interested: Cortical Labs and elsewhere have transitioned from teaching lab-grown human neurons to play Pong to teaching them to navigate Doom (specifically a version called Freedoom). submitted by /u/vengeful_bunny
Originally posted by u/vengeful_bunny on r/ArtificialInteligence