Why, @Eceni? Why would an intelligent device have any motivation to reproduce itself? The difference between us an an artificial intelligence is we have instinct and emotion, but not rationality; and it would have rationality, but not instinct (and possibly not emotion). Why would the one instinct an artificial intelligence had be to reproduce? This is utterly impausible.
@simon_brooke@Eceni What would stop an AI deleting itself? Came to the rational conclusion it wasn't worth existing and just went "na dudes, i'm out - enjoy this shitshow on your own"
What would stop capitalism deleting itself? It's a pseudo-intelligent super-organism whose only/necessary impulse is to grow and it is destroying people and planet.
And shows no signs of switching off.
so... 'intelligent' doesn't mean that it's got any kind of moral compass. Just that it has the capacity infinitely to grow regardless of the consequences.
@Eceni@piglet the reason #capitalism is destroying the planet is literally because we told it to. We told it to maximise profits regardless of all other considerations, and that's what it does. But it does this precisely because it isn't either autonomous or intelligent: it isn't able to change its behaviour in the light of new information.
@simon_brooke@Eceni@piglet
Trying to decide whether to apply the label of "intelligent" to a system is usually a distraction. A thing is what it does.
We know what capitalism does, so we can be reasonably wary of what a tool constructed by capitalists for capitalist ends will be used for, be it as clever as a slime mould or as stupid as an LLM.
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