Between all the talk of "alignment" and the parallel obsession with humanoid robots should make it obvious they want slaves.

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hattmall 2 days ago | parent [-]

There's nothing contextually negative about the word slave when you are talking about a machine. An AI is no more a slave than a lightbulb.

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coliveira 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Except that the stated goal is to have human-like intelligence. The goal seems to be to create a highly intelligent synthetic individual which is at the same time stupid enough to do anything it's asked to do without even thinking... a contradiction in terms.

	▲	krige 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		At a time like this I can't help but recall a Lem story - yeah I know there's a Lem story for any occasion - about Doctor Diagoras, especially his rant about a character from an earlier Tichy story, who made human-like AIs. The rant, especially his questions about why would anyone add just another human, except synthetic one, to the millions of existing biological people, and that cybernetics should be about something else, really resonated with me.

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allturtles 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What is the moral distinction between an intelligent humanoid machine and a human? What is a human but an intelligent flesh-and-blood machine?