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by doku 5287 days ago
Singularity through AI won't happen, not by electronic AI, but by biological means. The advancement in biotech will out pace AI. Our sequencing technology is advancing at exponential rate, a rate faster than Moore's law.

One way of creating AI is through imitation. We study and understand the brain and build neural network chips. But why build the system from ground up when we can just hack a already intelligent system, our brain. Evolution has already created a cheap and very efficient system for intelligence. It's far harder to build from ground up.

Once we reach immortality and bio brain upgrades, AI won't be a threat. Humans are inherently selfish; we will spend more efforts on self improvement to stay competitive. The new humans will be the super-intelligent being and our greed is the mechanism for singularity. But that greed could also be hacked.

If a system capable of intelligence is build, why would it make self improvements? or do anything? If a human have absolutely no drive, no sex hormones, no food drive would it think about anything? Is it intelligent?

The intelligent system that we build will be for human's selfish gains and will be used to improve humans. That means humans will improve along side with the system, or humans are part of the system. What's really scary is if the system is build with all the drive and motivation build in...