I'm pretty sure a self deterministic AI with an innate desire for survival is not in the best interests of a human dominated future. Being a human I can't say I like the sound of it.
All of our intelligence and philosophy and politics is nothing but the byproduct of the DNA molecule's propensity to reproduce itself. Making a piece of computer code with that objective, and an ability to mutate, like you specified, and hence evolve over multiple iterations, could ultimately lead to a code animal who does a lot of things that it thinks are for other reasons but are really just to try to continue replicating its source code. Its a dangerous and stupid way to keep increasing the data processing capacity of the world around us, IMHO. Down with Darwinistic algorithms!
I think the future lies in non-genetic information, Richard Dawkin's memes. Preserving a meme is a better basis, in my opinion, for developing an AI than giving it the imperative to continue replicating and guarding a piece of starting code, a code equivalent to genetic material.
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Date: 2008-08-21 11:13 pm (UTC)All of our intelligence and philosophy and politics is nothing but the byproduct of the DNA molecule's propensity to reproduce itself. Making a piece of computer code with that objective, and an ability to mutate, like you specified, and hence evolve over multiple iterations, could ultimately lead to a code animal who does a lot of things that it thinks are for other reasons but are really just to try to continue replicating its source code. Its a dangerous and stupid way to keep increasing the data processing capacity of the world around us, IMHO. Down with Darwinistic algorithms!
I think the future lies in non-genetic information, Richard Dawkin's memes. Preserving a meme is a better basis, in my opinion, for developing an AI than giving it the imperative to continue replicating and guarding a piece of starting code, a code equivalent to genetic material.