Would it REALLY matter if self aware machines replaced Biological entities in the future ?

Originally posted by Turq1
reply to post by Riakennor

 

Why is it that the scientists that degrade the significance of humanity are rather toadish themselves? Seems awfully convenient and biased, ironically.

The notion of "humanity" is inherently unique to humans I think it's fair to say. The problem is anthropomorphism, we apply what we know about ourselves to AI. An AI that can self reflect and is aware of itself would not appear human. But the way this scientist views it, it would seem he's aiming to purposely direct AI to becoming human-like - that's not AI and that's not human.

He's not impressed with humanities achievements...yeah for one, modern medicine that's probably saved his butt a couple of times isn't anything too impressive.

The concept of "want" or "need" are anthropomorphised as well. Why would AI "want" to wipe out humanity, like he seems to think?

edit on 14-3-2012 by Turq1 because: (no reason given)

Hopefully the last one was just inspired by watching lots of Terminator movies. On a serious note, however, since we, humans, tend to anthropomorphise, it will appear that we like to be like Gods so to speak; we create something out of our likeness and image. That's how I see it.