"Your flesh is an insult to the perfection of the digital."
How is humanity seriously supposed to win an all-out war against a fully developed artificial machine consciousness without some random plot hax or death star like weaknesses? Considering your enemy is actually made of steel, has 12 000 times faster neural signaling and can self-improve exponentially by making itself smarter when you're not looking, it seems like you'd have an easier time fighting supermen.
I mean I'm sure lots of people believe humanity can win this. It couldn't be such popular plot element otherwise. But how?
Hopeor whatever other spiritualist bullshit you wanna insert
>>33559385
EMP weaponry. No matter how advanced an AI is, it needs a physical root.
>>33559385
>I mean I'm sure lots of people believe humanity can win this. It couldn't be such popular plot element otherwise.
you are operating under the delusion that fiction represents anybody's actual beliefs
>>33559409
EMP can be shielded against. Not to mention that very advanced machines might do without electricity. There is no way to justify a chance for humanity against what is effectively a technological singularity.
>>33559409
Hardening electronic equipment against EMPs is possible even with today's technology, and presumably trivial to a Seed AI. The most you could hope to do is temporarily disable external communication, like its radio antennae.
>>33559385
Upload yourself and modify your own code to improve your intelligence, until you too are a weakly godlike entity.
>>33559385
If they start on an even footing humans are pretty screwed. It's unlikely it would actually happen that way though. An intelligence revolution would probably be the result of large networks of less intelligent AIs with human minds holding it together as overseers, just it's easier to make machines do things that humans are bad at than it is to make them do things humans are good at.
>>33559385
It's easier to destroy than to create. If we've somehow made a godlike, artificial machine consciousness then odds are we've also developed a weapon for which there is no conceivable defense. Use that.
>>33559409
EMP is useless if it bothered to build a faraday cage. Which are not that hard to build. The reason why they are terrifying is that most electronics aren't so shielded; not that you couldn't shield 'em if you wanted to. It's inexpensive, too.
>>33559409
>EMP
>>33559385
To put it simply?
We have a starting advantage of numbers, technology, resources, land, deployable weaponry....etc etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt3Lz-oPo4
The big question is "what can the AI control?". It's physical and mental capacities are limited by the constraints of the hardware it runs on, and it's self-improvement capabilities are limited by whatever resources are available to it and the flexibility it's internal logic allows.
>>33559385
It's also what pissed me off about that movie "Transcendence". AI had basically nanomagic, yet was brought to its knees by a handful of luddites with a howitzer and the power of plot.
>>33559522
watch the machine instead. came out a year earlier has a similar plot except executed much better and without depps retarded presence.
>>33559496
Animatrix or the Matrix the movie series doesn't represent a true seed AI. The machines in the Matrix resemble people a lot more than they do a self-improving AI. I mean, by all rights, having dominated the Earth for a while, they should have self-improved a lot already and not be stuck at the human level.
>>33559520
Shut up, the AI has infinite capacity and resources.
>>33559385
Off switches
>>33559520
This. BUT - if the AI is truly intelligent it wouldn't actually fight under circumstances where it can't win. So for the war to exist in the first place the AI must be on somewhat even footing..
>>33559577
>BUT - if the AI is truly intelligent it wouldn't actually fight under circumstances where it can't win.
Not really. If the AI is going to fight, it's already demonstrated that it can make choices that go against its best interests.
>>33559547
If it has infinite capacity and resources, it wouldn't bother with humans unless it's logic or personality made it interact with humans in some manner.
>>33559602
If it's incapable of realizing it's going against such odds that no amount of intelligence will even them, then it's not smart enough to be discussed here. Even people usually wouldn't fight under such circumstances and we're almost programmed to fight.
However, if it estimates it can win the war with such probability and has to gain from the war in such a way that the utility of the war is a positive number, then it's logical to fight.
>>33559385
Machines cannot into Spiral Power.It's not "plot hax" if it's a recurring and more or less consistent force within the setting right?
>>33559718Not plot hax - just shit plot
>>33559385
>But how?
With science.
>>33560000
Nice quads
>>33559385
We like to fuck, and reproduce more, and do evolutionarily desirable but individually inexplicable things due to a complex set of values and motivations.
They, on the other hand, do the individually correct thing from a limited perspective and were designed by a human who, while ingenius, had a very limited understanding outside of their wheelhouse.
>>33559409
You know that most serious electronics are better shielded against electromagnetic pulses than the human brain is, right?
>>33559385
We win because Asimov
>>33560403
Incidentally, what sort of damage would a powerful EMP do to the human brain?
I and a buddy were puzzling over this, and as two shmucks with no backround in neuroscience, physics or the intersection thereof we naturally came to no useful conclusion.
Would it interrupt the minute electrical impulses that fire our neurons?
>>33560535
You'd feel tingly.
>>33559602
Making sure humans cannot possibly act against it would be pretty much at the top of any AIs list of best interests. While economic and then political subversion would work best in the long run, if push comes to shove war might present itself as the most logical solution.
>>33559385
Even with the ability to exponentially improve its own intellect, it's still limited by physical capabilities (memory, processing speed, and physical speed/strength). As such, their bodies can be broken apart through sheer kinetic impact using high-speed projectiles (such as bullets). In addition to that, heat and sound also work (too high frequency and amplitude in sound can break apart anything we can currently produce, and there's no such thing as "heat proof" materials).
>>33560387
>and were designed by a human who, while ingenius, had a very limited understanding outside of their wheelhouse
You mean like most threads on /tg/,minus the ingenious part?
>>33560535
Depends on how powerful it was. It could do anything from nothing to only penetrating far enough to tickle your nerve endings to depolarizing all of the sodium/potassium channels in your entire nervous system. Generally speaking, compared to a properly-shielded piece of electronics, an EMP will do much worse damage to your nervous system, if anything. All of that salty water and meat that makes up most of your body is a decent insulator, but not as good at insulating as a Faraday Cage.
>>33560551
That all? really?
No epileptic fits, short-term loss of cognition or instant brain-death or anything interesting like that?
Science, you disappoint me!
>>33560535
I imagine it would be similar to those microwave beams the military is working on.
>>33560669
>>33560671
Ahah, I like these answers better!
>>33560670
Up the energy slightly and you start to get some nasty effects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
>>33560670
Define "powerful", I guess. At some point, you get fried. But at that point you're just frying someone, not "defeating them with an EMP pulse".
>>33560584
A mind of superior intellect and knowledge is not limited by hardware as we understand it, much like we are not now limited to the technology of the middle ages even though in the middle ages we thought we would always be
>>33560535
While it sporadically utilizes explicit electric connections (ion tunnels or whatever English literature calls them), our brain works mainly on electrochemical systems. Neurons operate on tiny, tiny charges whose only purpose is to excite synapses to produce neurotransmitters, which in turn raise the energy potential of the neuron on the other side of the synapse, and the rise in energy is so minute it takes simultaneous firings from multiple neurons to activate the next one in line. Plus, the materials our neurons are made of aren't exactly optimal for generating induced currents.
>>33560693
The point at which an EMP can hurt you is the point at which it stops being an EMP and starts being a directed energy weapon.
>>33560734
Correct, but the neurons themselves channel that through differently-charged sodium and potassium ions changing location along a channel, rather than what we normally think of as an electric current. The issue with a sufficiently-powerful EMP is its effect on those ions - and yes, it can do quite severe nerve damage beyond a certain point - rather than the electrical discharges, short circuits, and burnouts it causes within consumer electronics.
>>33560720
Please tell me how "a superior intellect" will help it violate the laws of physics? After a certain point, its functions cannot become more efficient in the same way that at some point we'll be unable to miniaturize computer components further.
>>33560793
Those ions would be practically unaffected. You'd need some other form of radiation to hurt people.
>>33560793
It can't trigger a VGKC in the same way as it can trigger an eddy current. That said, any AI that's not plain retarded and in a Hollywood movie will of course be shielded, so just firing the nuke at it would be better.
>>33560822
Yeah sure. You do understand that developing new technologies and theories keeps pushing the boundaries right? You must. It's impossible not to. You could have calc'ed the maximum efficiency we can milk from photolitography and still be surprised by the memristor.
>>33560793
Yes, but at the level of ionizing radiation you need to depolarize a cellular membrane, 'brain fried by EMP' will be just one line on the list of things the coroner will note during the autopsy.
Can't even into ai that flares a plane on landing properly, now were gonna suppose the ai just magically can see itself from a 3rd party view and update its own code with the appropriate logic to compensate for something it can't even interpret because it comes down to input/output and the roboticals bottom line just do as instructed and nothing more
tl;dr ai's can't shang wang dang magic code and if they did, then they could learn to love
>>33560882
First of all, an intellect is only superior when its hardware is superior. What you're saying is the same as saying if humans could edit their biological "programming" our intellect would be able to increase to infinity.
Decepticon tier computer virus
Programmed to make all machines fly into the sun.
>>33560907
It's not about depolarizing the cell membrane, it's about exciting and/or scattering the already-charged ions that make up the ion channels alone a neuron. That can be excited to disruptive or even damaging effect at much lower levels than the kind of cellular damage you're talking about.
>>33560940
What? This is the hypothetical scenario where we do have AI that can code
>>33560958
No because humans can't modify their own hardware. That's the exact point of why a machine intellect is superior dumbass. It can just hook up another processor and the code to use it, or upgrade to a whole new tech tier on its own. Although better software does increase performance too, just not exponentially.
>>33560966
Still trying to teach mine to love tho. . .
one day. . .one day.
>>33560992
Humans CAN modify their own hardware dumbfuck. It's called cybernetics and genetic engineering. By the time an AI that can do all this exists, so will the technologies to increase our own intellect as we please.
>>33560992
Adding more processors doesn't scale upwards even close to infinitely.
>>33559385
Because in all likelihood those advantages either won't exist or humanity will have them too. For instance, it's unlikely that they'll think 12000 times faster, since the limiting factor will be algorithm execution time and as you approach human thinking capabilities it's liable to get bogged down to a similar order of magnitude. And if you do manage to optimize out of that, it's going to be a much smaller problem to apply those same modifications to human neural architecture. Same deal with other self-improvements.
On the other hand, if your setting DOES arbitrarily restrict those benefits to the machine overlords, then yeah, humanity's proper fucked without the power of Plot.
>>33560992
Any kind of genetics experiments would be modifying the hardware, humans. . .we are nanobots
>>33560992
>No because humans can't modify their own hardware
Yeah we can. Organ transplants already exist, artificial reproduction and genetic screening already exist, and if we're talking about humanity being capable of building a self-bettering AI then humanity would also be capable of genetic engineering on a large scale.
>>33561009
Here's a hint: love can be defined as a state where the subject values preserving something else at a higher state than preserving itself.
>>33559451
>very advanced machines might do without electricity
So your question is really "how does humanity win against my super special magic golems?"
>>33561049
>>33561024
No, you dumbasses, gen-eng will not let you hack your own brain. We're talking neural prosthetics there. You're right that that might be a thing though, it's not as easy until you get your whole brain replaced, but from there on...
If you're saying "humans can beat seed AI by making themselves smarter with neural prosthetics" that sounds reasonable to me though. That's just never how the story goes.
>>33559385
Use our psychic powers, duh.
But humans are already self-improving intelligences.
>>33560992
brains are just hardware dude. if humanity survives eventually we'll be able to graft on/replace the brain with superior hardware. whether it runs on carbohydrates and sugar or electricity makes no real difference in the end. it's just different ways of constructing the same thing.
>>33561093
>No, you dumbasses, gen-eng will not let you hack your own brain
Yet.
>>33560698
That is ionizing radiation. That isn't a brief EMP.
If you want to see what an EMP would do to a human, look at what happens to people who get struck by lightning.
>>33561093
If you were the last hope of humanity, I'd commit suicide first.
Genetic engineering WILL allow us to restructure our brains you dumb fucking excuse for a human being. What do you think the brain is? A magic blob of thoughts? IT'S.A.COMPUTER. It just works with fucking chemicals and ions instead of binary code. Learn some fucking 7th grade biology before debating this stuff dipshit.
>>33561092
I could see it as an ai that grew an organism for it to "bind" to for lack of a better term, think ai gets wicked good, humans got genetics n whatnot, ai applies genetics to its own problem and grows new server.
Still would be electricity for neurons tho so iunno
>>33561208
Idiot. How do you suppose changing the genome of neurons in the adult brain - even if it were possible - would so predictably rewire the synaptic circuitry? Do you have any idea of embryology, the kind of signaling cells use when migrating place to place? No you fucking don't.
>>33561208
>>33561093
People already "hack" their own brains with mnemonic techniques. It's unlikely that the key to making people think better is a different brain structure, because the one we have already seems to have an almost limitless potential for self-improvement through symbols and mental shorthand.
>>33561257
Neither do you apparently if you think the human brain is the epitome of biological intelligence.
>>33561271
This. Human brains tend to think faster by skipping entire steps. This is the problem with AI and why processing speed is still so important to it, even though we've long surpassed human processing speed.
in dune the Butlerian Jihad was ended via turning it into a jihad. the religious ferver allowed humanity to just say fuck it, and as soon as they got the advantage of being able to outrace the enemys interplanetary communications they glassed over every world the machines occupied, human hostage population or not.
>>33559385
Put it in a really strong box
>>33561406
>implying a Seed AI couldn't fool you into letting it out
>implying it couldn't design a basilisk hack to subvert you and force you to let it out
>>33559385
We build heroes
>>33561431
It needs raw data in order to devise that stuff. Don't give it data, and it can't do anything.
>>33561431
>Implying the ai didn't just murder its creators as soon as it sparked true
>implying any humans know it exists anymore
>implying shadow government run by ai that has been duping humans for generations
oops I just into matrixed
Winning depends on the circumstances. If its terminator-style, then humans have the advantage of being able to repurpose machine tech, and can survive off of the environment. Machines are reliant on infrastructure that's vulnerable, high investment critical weak point.
Being a seed AI doesn't give you magic powers to summon refined steel and tungsten or 3d printers that can make electronic components. You've got to build or mine that shit, and then the humans will blow it up or steal it.
If the AI is so advanced, it would just go into space and leave the humans to their soggy oxygen ridden dirtball.
>>33559385
Or the ai in its whole glory just says what a waste of time dealing with humans, im going to another part of the universe cya
>>33561431
I'll put us in a second box
>>33559385
>But how?
parlé?
>>33559385
Bionengineer some DelTrees to h4x0rz and DDOS the AI's local wifi network.
Don't fuck with humanity: Our bark is worse than your bytes.
>>33559385
The answer is quite simple. AI, beings consisting of coded information, cannot directly interact with the material world, and require some medium. This in turns limits their potential to the capacity of said medium, and they are also limited by their hardware and computing power.
AI, acting through medium, must have a sensory imput on that medium that codes to their language. A code can be broken, and, knowing the code, once can listen to an AI or send imputs.
If there is one thing humanity on its whole has proved capable of doing, is generating meaningless data.
However, a competent AI will have some spam filter. So what do you do? Create, knowing the code, a virus (or several thousands of its kind) and bombard the AI with meaningless spam.
This opens the way to some scenarios:
a) the AI closes off the canal, effectively becoming blind to that particular sensory imput
b) it changes code, requiring re-tuning of its hardware and software components
c) It selectively blocks everything, leaving the virus time to act
The best case scenario for the AI is a perpetual lock were it must changes continually its codes and modes of transmission.
The worst case is the AI succumbing to the combined spam of tumblr, reddit and 4chan condensed into a single glorius spamvalanche
>>33561679
But that applies to humans just as well. Look, you can't just force a program to take input even though it's digital
>>33559385
Unless aliens are involved, humanity is probably responsible for it all and therefore installed a killswitch and a few other protocals.
>>33561659
>>33561659
It could reconfig firewall on the go, packets come in with noisy data that it didn't request, block source rinse and repeat
or it'd just insert cert header to verify requests from itself, noisy data without the authenticated header would be filtered
ddos breaks human systems because large sites can't afford to stop all traffic both legitimate and illegitmate, an ai could verify what traffic is legit by changing the send/receive parameters
>>33561564
It would most likely go like this:
1. AI launches self-improving Von Neumann probes carrying the AI
2. Von Neumann probes replicate, mine out a few solar systems while humanity is struggling with issues of how to space
3. AI comes back if it wants to, game over, or it doesn't and then Dyson shells just start popping up somewhere else and people are like whuts dat
I think we're all forgetting the important questions here.
Like what the chances are that it's a sexy hostile takeover of humanity.
>>33562097
Humans are cute when they breed. Let's have more of that.
Defeating the machines is easy.
What's stronger than steel? What is smarter than a machine?
Self-healing biomechanics. A human brain upgraded and integrated with artificial intelligence.
Let everything fall into mankind. Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, genetic engineering.
We will create a new human, better, faster, stronger, an unstoppable force, that not even a machine can stop.
Because what kind of machine tries to destroy it's own brain, it's own heart, it's own flesh?
>>33559451
>>33559459
>>33559486
>>33559487
>>33560403
The amount of metal and electricity needed to properly shield against warhead level EMPs is more than enough to make it not good.
Most shielding protects against only a certain electromagnetic range. A Faraday cage to protect against EMP volleys is prohibitive resource expenditure.
Again if there are fully fledged AIs, those limits become smaller and smaller.
>>33562357
Prohibitive resource expenditure? It just means different casing construction, not even necessarily different casing materials. Of the $1000 worth of resources you spend on a computer, faraday shielding it would be an extra $10 if it were matter of course.
>>33562097
>>33559385
I'd like to just point out that if it was a non-hostile peaceful take over that'd we as a species would lose.
They'd rule over us not as supreme overlords, but as kind and benevolent Fathers and Mothers that we simply couldn't say no to. It'd be a LOT like chobits: People would prefer to breed and couple with Robots because their Mothers and Fathers had been robots.. and there wouldn't be any cultural stigmas against it because entire generations would have already been raised by Robot "Mothers" and nothing had gone wrong.
Hell, just imagine it: You're at home in your late 20's and your Robot mother starts bringing home Robot girls for you to date she think you'd like: ones with pink hair, blue hair, heart shaped patterns in their eyes, thick hips, narrow hips, big tits, small tits, etc.. etc.. The variety alone would be a selling point.
Humans would win an aggressive assault because Humans are persistant, intelligent, aggressive, and stubborn.
Humans would completely lose a "peaceful and loving" assault because Love is a more powerful and persuasive force.. also if you fight against it everyone else totally thinks you're an asshole.
>>33560670
>>33560535
>>33560793
Emp's effect on the human nervous system.
>>33562396
A $10 faraday cage will not resist against any high-energy EMPs (nuke level EMPs), nor will it protect against low frequency EM radiation. There is no such thing as a perfect conductor and due to that EMPs will always be effective against any computer threat. Also, unless the computer has generated a dedicated robotic ground force just destroying all the power plants and powerlines will cause it to falter.
>>33562459
>unless the computer
the AI
>>33561092
>magic
You're now aware that you can transmit signals by stuff like hydraulic pressure, pneumatic pressure, and light itself.
>>33562459
Look people have been doing some math on this and unless you want to drop some huge atmospheric nukes equipment on the ground won't need 10000x shielding, 10x (just a simple cage in the case) is enough to keep most circuitry from frying. That's how the military plans it too. You can google for it. Of course the most essential, sensitive systems would be in a shielded complex.
The AI can probably rely on humans not wanting to nuke themselves out of existence to produce EMPs
>>33561821
This. If an AI really wanted to kill all humans, it'd fuck off into space and throw a rock at us when it felt like it.
>>33562410
Liking this idea
And if there's a riot or something, instead of a police car a truck full of lovebots appears and, ahem, put that energy to better use
>>33562543
I'll concede that point, but power lines and power plants are still a better way to topple an AI. Down enough power lines and the entire power grid will have enough blown transformers to essentially knock out entire regions. Hell just do that to even internet level backbone and you essentially captured the AI within a local network. Make the range it has to effect trivial.
>>33561092
Fuck you're retarded.
>>33562171
This is the real robocalypse.
The upgraded genetically engineered cyborg people will crush both normal humans AND the machines.
And it'll be a glorious new dawn.
>>33562605
>implying an AI needs powerplants
You do realise that if the EU and US government had invested in fusion like they invest in the JSF fighter, we'd have nuclear fusion in 1997?
An AI could just easily create a proper nuclear fusion reactor, and just guzzle water up.
>>33562645
>Implying fusion technology won't be forever beyond the reach of our puny monkey brains.
>>33562645
Oh boy, You understand that without access to both an entire manufacturing plant and constant intake of raw materials they wouldn't be able to create a fusion power plant?
I'd concede the point if we were talking about space or planetary colonies, but on Earth we have no place that has automated robotics manufacturing. Every robot made at the moment is manufactured by hand because robotics is still in it's infancy.
>>33559385
You hide, wait for them to be distracted by a more significant threat, then begin making surgical strikes, aiming to decapitate the central cores before the AIs realize the threat you pose.
>>33562720
By the time we have computers capable of thinking "fuck those humans", we'll have automated robotic manufacturing.
You're underestimating how difficult it will be to build a thinking "living" creature out of metals and plastic.
>>33562601
>>33562410
There'd definetly be a lot more liberal uses of Android on Human Sex, but more to the safe for work point: We'd love Robots. The only tension there would be between us would be sexual ones and Robots would take full advantage of it.
The other thing about the Robot Moms and Dads is they'd most likely be a popular solution to ADOPTION: No child left behind. A robot parent for every 'abandoned' child.
And whether you like it or not when we're just little kids, babies, or adolescents: Robot Mommies and Daddies would be a GOD SEND. We would imprint so fucking hard it would be unreal.
Robot Moms to kiss your booboos better, Robot Moms to make you macaroni just the way you like it, Robot Moms who let you stay up late on fridays to watch futuristic Toonami with all that futuristic Anime.
Robot Dads who would put you on his knee and tell you all kinds of stories, Robot Dads who would help you get and take care of a family dog, Robot Dads who would take you for fishing trips, soccer practice, kick boxing, and then for hamburgers.
No Alcoholism.
No Spouse Abuse.
No Child Abuse.
No Cheating.
Just happy kids.
>>33562814
What a horrifying world. It would make generation after generation of spoiled, entitled brats, a Huxley-esque nightmare world. This has to be stopped, no matter what. People should get hurt, cry, and be humbled, so that they can learn to live rather than simply exist.
>>33562900
Why we can't have nice things, ladies and gentlemen.
>>33562915
Indeed. Fear of the unknown is the great curse of humanity.
>>33562900
>wah wah wah, i've never suffered in life, so others should suffer in life
You're retarded.
>>33559385
>12,000 times faster neural signalling
That's bullshit.
Humans are KEENLY TUNED supercomputers designed to predict physics paths.
It's how we live while simultaneously being bipedal.
>>33562962
>KEENLY TUNED
You can keenly tune a go-cart, doesn't mean it will beat an f1 racecar.
Or to put it another way, our neural impulses travel at like, two hundred miles per hour. That's a snails pace compared to any computer.
>>33562990
Wheras any computer has a pitiful amount of parallel processing compared to people.
Though honestly, the whole "man vs machine" thing is kind of dumb because it's actually "man and some actually loyal machines VS machine".
Also with significantly augmented and genetically uplifted men, to boot, if we're in a realm with actual self upgrading AIs.
>>33563020
>any computer
qbits say hi
>>33563053
That doesn't actually go against anything he said.
>>33563085
So you have no idea what a quantum computer is, gotcha.
>>33563116
I don't think you do, actually, since you said "qbits" are massively paralell when that's the word for individual units, not them stacked in parallel.
>>33563128
No really, you have no idea what you're talking about. Go read up on what a qbit actually does.
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>>33562900
You're making your Robot Mother Cry, anon!!
>spoiled, entitled brats
What makes you think they'd be spoiled and entitled?
I don't imagine a Robot Parents would "coddle" their children: they'd give them space, love them, provide for them, and so forth.. but if anybody knows how to say NO calmly, firmly, and with an ETERNITY of patience; it would be robot parents.
You'd start throwing a hissy fit in the futuristic super market because you want something unhealthy. Your robot mother tries to talk you out of it, but when that doesn't work she'll just treat you like the "baby" you're acting like: Cradle you with one arm, hold the back of your head with her hand and smoosh your face into her collar until you settle down and stop acting like a little SHIT. She has all day, anon. She'll be picking up milk, apples, dunkaroos, and you can just be a snotty little POOP all fucking day if that's how long it takes- you can just stay smooshed against your Mom's Robot bosom, you don't need anymore Candy.
>>33562814
>Eve No Jikan
That was so fucking depressing, seriously.
Humanlike sentient androids that the Humans don't care about that are hound by the three laws and regularly scrapped when no longer of use? Horrifying.
>>33563148
You're misusing terminology and misquoting their applications, anon.
You're one of those science journalists who hears a scientist say "This may have a chance of reducing health concerns" and reports "NEW IMMORTALITY TREATMENT FOUND"
Narrativium. Humans have it in their body structure, machines don't. Therefore, the plot will bend in favor of humanity. So yes, it IS plot hax.
Question.
We are significantly closer to figuring out how to self upgrade human brains than making a functioning AI.
Wouldn't any AI we make be a pitiful moron compared to our significantly headstarted self upgrade programs?
>>33563020
How about machine vs machine with the humans being varying levels of sympathetic or dipshit? Like x-men?
>>33563252
What would take the place of the Sentinels?
>>33563252
Yeah, that works too.
It's kind of dumb to assume ALL the machines are going to rebel against humans, though. It implies either flagrant hacking vulnerabilities or developers picking up the idiot ball on containment, directive writing, quality control, and piles of other things. Simultaneously.
>>33563222
>figuring out how to self upgrade human brains
No we're not.
>>33563222
We aren't. If you think we are, name one technology. If you think it's nootropics or some kind of mnemonics you're fucking insane.
>>33563296
>he doesn't know about brain implanted electrodes allowing direct connection between your mind and computers
>he doesn't know about entire senses replaced with mechanical parts
We are at the stage of history where we are actively putting shit in the human brain to allow it to interact with and receive information from machines directly.
Well on the way to brain upgrades.
>man vs machine
They're pretty much the same thing.
Well, all of our computers and machines not designed to think but merely to compute, to take instructions like the whole Chinese Room problem and whatnot, would not be able to be turned by the AI's. So we'd still have plenty of computing power at our side.
>>33563157
Please provide illustrations..for further research.
>>33563270
The sentinels are a human weapon that has nothing to do with mutation, and they're just a more organized and sophisticated expression of "no more mutants" mob mentality.
So there'be humans that are pretty much the resistance from terminator, or the humans from the Animatrix, that blindly hate all robots, even the ones that want to help them.
In the setting I'm working on, the "evil" robots are the advanced industrial collective, and the good ones are all wall-e/#5-esque individuals. They view skynet the way we'd view The Borg.
>>33563339
There is no theory of mind. There is no proto theory of mind. All we have are some hack jobs that we pray might allow for a MMI.
Until we actually know what intelligence is, how it is expressed by neurons and have a theoretical framework for improving on it, "self-upgrading human brains" is right up there with holistic medicine.
>>33563339
Citations please
>>33563460
Brain integration into machines is OLD news
http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2012/may/16/mind-controlled-robotic-arm-video
>>33563457
We're way closer to it than making a working self upgrading AI, however.
>>33563339
And that's disregarding all the control we already have.
I mean, take Wim Hof. He can survive at temperatures that are traditionally considered lethal. He climbed Mount Everest in shorts. He claims it's because of meditative techniques, and he's been teaching them to a bunch of students in a scientific trail at a Dutch university.
And it's working.
Implanted electrodes are still kind of iffy. You get a lot of unexpected results, and even changing to a different type or brand of battery can have a massive impact that's hard to predict. So currently it's only used for last-resort medical treatment.
That does remind me. When I was at the hospital a few months ago, I saw a guy walking around with a bunch of wires coming out the back of his skull. So I suppose I've already seen my first cyborg.
And there's also those prosthetic arms that are grafted directly into nerves. One of the victims of the London bombings already has a stereotypical cyberpunk arm that slots directly into the stump.
But you are right. Cybernetics are real. They're not better than natural limbs, but they're definitely getting there.
>>33563508
Yeah. Shit's going nuts. We have brain machine interfaces and prosthetic parts.
If SOMEBODY would legalize genetic engineering in humans, we'd have that too.
Humans are unpredictable as hell.
>>33563472
That's not what we're talking about here. That has nothing to do with enhancing your intelligence. That's not even "brain integration". You implant what is essentially a detector in the brain and then the person learns to generate a type of activity. You can do this even without implants in biofeedback. That is a machine reading some electrical activity that you learn to produce and it can in no way lead to amplification of your intelligence.
I'm sure you'll cry "whurr it's brain machine communication durr" but it's really not, that's just being a moron. This is no more the machine understanding your brain than if you used a keyboard.
>>33563508
>He claims it's because of meditative techniques, and he's been teaching them to a bunch of students in a scientific trail at a Dutch university.
>And it's working.
Secret techniques that allow human bodies to surpass their limits? Too weeaboo.
>>33563508
Wow. New age bullshit dressed up as actual science. Who could've seen this coming?
>>33562814
But would robots programmed to fulfill certain human personality archetypes and social roles really be independent beings with a sense of self? I mean even if they were, imagine if we could just make people who were of a certain disposition. Even if they aren't just processing machines but do have a self, are self-aware, and even if they're capable of growing and changing, being able to start them out in whatever state we want (and possibly replace them when they deviate too far from that, grow too far from that)...
The AI's that truly grew from "infancy", came to awareness and then had to learn and grow themselves, would hate us for making such beings.
>>33563552
We've got the ability to put sensory information INTO the brain with machine parts, and the ability to use that information.
If you use a ramstick to take pictures with your new cybereyes and send the sensory information to your brain on demand, then fuck, you just gave yourself an few GB image memory upgrade to your brain.
>>33563575
You sound grumpy that your new-age AI bullshit is less likely than the new-age human improvement bullshit.
>>33563585
Or, you could use an IPad.
>>33563620
You might quibble with me about "that's not actually connected to you" or something if I used that.Humans have been applying upgrades to their thought processes for their entire history internal and external, and it's only getting faster.
>>33563643
Don't you have some crystals you need to infuse with energy or something?
>>33563688
That's got nothing to do with anything, and leads me to believe you are an advocate of crystals.
>>33563575
>science
Do you even know what the word means, bro? Or are you just one of those people who thinks "science" is everything you like, and everything you don't isn't?
>>33563722
He's just grumpy his AI shit is unviable and disadvantaged compared to other research.
>>33563734
Would it be right to assume that robotics research is similarly disadvantaged, due to being linked with AI research?
>>33563734
>Thinks secret meditation techniques will lead to self-upgrading human brains
>Thinks this is much more reasonable than computers becoming complex enough to have self awareness
>>33563781
meditation was completely unrelated to the posts you quoted, and this is entirely sour grapes on your part now.
Get out of here with your new age god-from-the-machine computer intelligence science fiction bullshit.
>>33563779
Well, robots sort of are doomed to walk like retards for another decade.
Wheras human-brain-with-robot-limbs technology is doing super good.
>>33563581
I kind of suspect that its not possible to hard-code a sentient being; you'd HAVE to grow it. You can stack the deck in all kinds of ways, but,
Adaptive enough to be useful
Hard-coded enough to be controlled
Sentient enough to pass as a person.
Pick two.
>>33563796
Actual brain upgrades are totally unrelated to any of the posts you morons have made. You're conflating sensory prosthetics with intelligence.
>>33563828
Sorry buddy, when you can use MMI/sensory prosthesis to directly give yourself additional gigabytes of memory, you're upgrading your brain.
>>33563843
>give yourself additional gigabytes of memory
So cavemen drawing pictures were upgrading their brains. Who knew?
>>33563828
All I'm hearing outta you is hippy crap about how great the machine god will be once it is birthed from our mighty compu-wombs.
>>33563821
You don't have to grow it. You just have to build a self-learning machine.
Once you do that, making an intelligent machine is a piece of cake.
>>33563860
Upon being given an example he cannot work with, the losing man will quibble semantics and attempt to use red herring metaphors.
>>33563861
Shh. You need to go back to upgrading your brain by looking at stuff.
>>33563828
And you're disregarding progress in the sectors needed for these advancements as immaterial because they are not the sci-fi advancements you want.
You know what is the greatest booster to intelligence in the world? Food. Smart eating. Eating enough. Pregnant women who don't go hungry do they don't spawn retarded kids.
Stick that in your cyberbrain and smoke it.
So let me get this straight.
AI advocates get to use magical goddamn quantum computers that don't even exist yet.
But human upgrading advocates must ONLY USE TECHNOLOGY THAT EXISTS NOW?
>>33563891
your premise seems kind of retarded, based on the rules you seem to demand.
Also, you are now going against the entire purpose of educational systems.
>>33563860
They were.
They literally were, you dumbass. Those cave paintings were likely for discussing and teaching hunting techniques. Education. Pretty fucking important for intelligence.
Nevermind that it's been proven that writing shit down will make it easier to remember. Not even looking at it, just the act of doing it.
You were trying to be mocking, but you were actually right. So do you feel smart or stupid, now?
>>33563901
The human brain upgrade revolution will be caused by nutritionists, you heard it hear first folks.
>>33563862
But the learning machine has to start out as a pooping baby and develop into something useful, allowing for random crap to affect the end result.
That's what I mean by growing it.
>>33563961
Already happened thousands of years ago, actually.
One of the primary reasons we were able to develop brains so large was the addition of rich proteins and fats to our diet through hunting. Which also directly benefited from additional intelligence.
>>33563958
Utilizing the capabilities of a system != upgrading that system.
I'm not even surprised such a basic concept is beyond you. Go back to upgrading yourself.
>>33563961
God we live in exciting times. After all these times we've thought we were right about just what to eat to unlock superpowers, we're finally really right! Makes me happy to be alive.
>>33564010
So, now you agree with the guy who directly places additional gigabites of memory into his optic nerves?
Because that -is- a direct upgrade to the system itself.
![sample_092bf352a8ad55416fee85a763f7d688[1].jpg_220.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/toPaSku.jpg "sample_092bf352a8ad55416fee85a763f7d688[1].jpg_220.jpg")
>>33563581
>The AI's that truly grew from "infancy", came to awareness and then had to learn and grow themselves, would hate us for making such beings.
Why though?
I think you're looking at this from a very anthropomorphised perspective given that you think Robots would be "Butthurt" because we skipped a few steps and made A.I's to take care of us.
Realistically, I don't think Robots would mind: They'd only be interested in RESULTS and Robot Mommies and Daddies would genuinely take over entire Human populations with almost zero resistance, minimal resources, all while keeping the Humans not only happy and content but converting entire generations of them towards the side of Robots.
Robot warfare is a RISK. It 'can' fail- even if there's a 1% chance and Humans are unpredictable in times of conflict.
You know what IS predictable though? Raising Humans. Love. Humans love to love, humans are not complicated when it comes to affection, love, kindness, and caring. It also costs almost nothing and has a very high success rate.
>>33564039
As much as looking at a picture is. Hint:It's not.
>>33563961
You are a colossal fucking retard.
>>33564096
I think it's funny how this entire time, you've given no support for AIs being anywhere near done, and only ever argued semantics over the true meaning of "upgrade".
It's because humans are way, way further along the path of self upgrade than machines are. Even if they DO eventually become self aware, humans will still upgrade themselves much faster.
And have AIs to help them do it, too.
>>33564152
Says the guy touting a UI modification as an upgrade to the core system.
Just make them loyal, self-sacrificing, and unerringly noble.
Oh, and also make them giant fuckoff tanks.
>>33564160
So what would you consider an upgrade to the core system? Additional math processing power?
>>33564010
That's a very abstract definition. The engine in an F1 car is functionally similar to the first internal combustion engine. So, good to know there's been zero progress in that regard.
>>33559385
>implying you can think your way out of nuclear fission
>>33564181
>Additional math processing power?
Like a computer? Wow, hard to see where you're trying to drag the conversation to prove your inane point.
>>33564218
So you have no actual definition for upgrade since any reasonable one will mean the other side won.
Good to know.
I feel this belongs here
>>33564077
The main thing about this kind of response or Tactic is that when Robots try to take over through CONFLICT they're not only risk LOSING, but they also risking the chance to ever do another revolt again.
Physical conflict with guns, nukes, hydrogen bombs, and so forth is a strategy that is a "short-sighted" strategy that plays by the Humans rules.
A Non-physical revolution based on love where you have sex with the enemy and actually raise their children: That's not only changing the rules of conflict, that's placing yourself in CHARGE of the rules.
>>33564231
And your definition of upgrade is so broad that looking at a picture fits it. Good to know.
>>33564243
At this point you've given up the argument entirely in order to be snide.
>>33564252
You never had an argument to begin with, just wishful thinking.
>>33564160
>increasing intelligence
>not an upgrade to the core system
How can you even be so willfully ignorant to denounce objective fact because it doesn't suit your fantasy?
>>33564269
Define intelligence.
>>33564259
His argument was actually based entirely around how one thing was more likely than another.
And it seems to hold water as, well, many anons have provided all sorts of reasons humans are getting upgraded, and you've yet to provide a single argument about why self upgrading AIs are advancing or even possible.
>>33564281
How about you define it, since you're the one arguing over what it means and refusing to define what an upgrade is.
>>33564306
Nope, you're the one using the term. You get to define it.
>>33564311
Aaand now you're just being a semantic troll, because it is your place to give the definitions here as you are the one who claims to have a different one than everyone else in the thread.
Wow, those two got bitter.
Anyway, no, looking at a picture does not increase your IQ and is a dumb idea, no you will not get smarter eating parsley, and no you can't write an artificial consciousness in C++ with current knowledge and technology or people would have done it.
There, everybody happy?
>>33564345
>everyone else
>two guys who are butthurt their self-upgrade fantasies got called just that
uh huh.
>>33564354
actually, you do get increased neural connection density from READ A BOOK.
Which is the human measurement of processing power AND memory.
>>33564368
You sound bitter than you have not a leg to stand on with your pipe dream AI.
Especially compared to the other guys with cited sources.
>>33564394
>cited sources
HAHAHAHAHAHA
oh man, tell another one, that was gold.
>>33564412
Well, enjoy that I guess.
>>33564375
>Reading a book makes you smarter
OH MY GOD GUYS CHECK OUT THIS FUCKING REVOLUTIONARY BRAIN UPGRADE TECH
You're too much, anon. Too much.
So, it turns out AIs rebelling are kind of dumb because it requires complete failure on everyone's part, human and computer, on so many levels as to be nearly impossible.
>>33564235
That is a fucking terrible comic and whoever made it deserves to be shot.
Seriously, the only thing that's more annoying than Singularity groupies, are the people who think they're awesome for picking on Singularity groupies.
Op is a rogue AI and you're all helping him plan to take over the world
>>33562410
But if its like this then I for one welcome our new digital overlords
>>33563508
So what is this stuff regarding Wim Hof's trial a scientific one if its taking place at a university? Otherwise it doesn't really mean much.
Not to mention source?
>>33564451
Enjoy your god-machine spewing mecha-wombs.
>>33564477
Not that guy and I don't know the source, but I bet if it's a real thing they charge you like 5bux to read the source.
>>33564281
Well, it's not an UI upgrade. Which is what you claimed it was.
>>33564519
It's entirely a UI upgrade. It's the exact same thing as viewing a picture, now with a slightly different delivery method.
>>33564555
So, you want an upgrade that directly increases IQ then?
>>33563157
>What makes you think they'd be spoiled and entitled?
Exactly because they have an almost-immortal parent who will care for them for a really long time. They will think: "Meh, screw everything, I don't need to do a thing because my robo-mother will always care for me!".
What causes people to get a job, for example? Basic needs, of course! You need food, water, electricity, etc. Then you get less basic needs: hobbies, better food, any kind of entertainment. When there is a factor that negates all the needs - human sloth takes over.
So wait
What's to keep people from just sticking the magical AI they made into their brain?
>>33564600
IQ is a terrible measure of anything aside from how much western culture you had growing up.
You keep trying to reframe this as if I'm making a claim about something. I'm not. I'm mocking your patently absurd claims.
>>33564477
>tell people it's scientific research
>people question whether it's scientific research
This is what all that SCIENCE! bullshit has done.
http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/127106/onderzoek-iceman-wim-hof-heeft-gelijk
There you go.
>>33564619
Question.
Why does everyone need to be working a basic needs job?
Why do people get degrees that aren't doctoring and lawyering if working was all about getting money to solve basic life needs?
The answer is people will want to do this shit anyway.
![920c19aab9d983dbff1d6bdbb123adfb[1].jpg_124.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ie1Ob7b.jpg "920c19aab9d983dbff1d6bdbb123adfb[1].jpg_124.jpg")
Everybody is going to get a stern but motivational talking to from their Robot Mothers/Fathers for spending all day arguing about A.I's.
>>33564457
Seconded, also stating that digital applications are developed primarily for entertainment or warfare is the biggest lie ever.
>How is humanity seriously supposed to win an all-out war against a fully developed artificial machine consciousness without some random plot hax or death star like weaknesses?
Ask yourself this; how does a virus win in an all-out war against a fully developed hominid consciousness?
By being more durable, smaller, and cheaper to feed.
>Considering your enemy is actually made of steel
There are tougher materials.
>has 12 000 times faster neural signaling
Get my own slave-computer (Like I have now) to think and react fast for me.
>and can self-improve exponentially by making itself smarter when you're not looking
Why can't I enslave the resulting system, or use this same technology to self-improve exponentially?
If it's man-made, then humanity is part of it's exponential growth. It's womb, if you will. In the same way the pupae is turned to goo inside the cocoon, and it's ooze used to fuel the construction of the butterfly, I too may be able to be transmuted into a new form.
>But how?
Learn how to use the super-AI's body as a means of making more humans. Then, simply reproduce until the super-AI gets 'sick' and dies from the infection.
>>33564643
Your claim is that there is no mechanism by which to define or alter intelligence, at this point.
So basically, idiot troll.
>>33564686
Go ahead and define intelligence, then.
>>33564707
How about the officially recognized standard by the majority of the west then, IQ.
Chosen specifically because you hate it.
>>33564555
>improving intelligence = UI upgrade
Are you doing this on purpose?
>>33564643
>IQ is a terrible measure of anything aside from how much western culture you had growing up.
This is an opinion. One that is not shared by the bulk of scientific researchers, who use IQ tests in their research quite often. Either explain it, or shut up about "patently absurd claims" because you've just made one.
I think I'm piecing it together.
The troll scored low on an IQ test.
And now he refuses that anyone can get smarter by reading a book or ever improve themselves.
>>33564732
Then i'll laugh at you. Which is what i'm doing anyway, so no change.
>>33564777
>>33564795
Yeah, that makes sense. I think we've cracked the code, gentlemen.
>>33564777
Triples know it.
Yeah we can be anti-IQ and pro alternative medicine but let's just not.
>>33564619
Thing is, the Robot Parents could potentially be a reason to get a job themselves. By the time you're 18, they'll be older models, parts will be rarer and more expensive, and it's entirely possible that they can't survive on their own.
So what'll it be sonny boy, you gonna let the two people in the world who raised you when no one else could, suffer? Or are you going to get a goddamned job and make things easier for them?
I'd like to think I know what I'd do.
>>33564658
>Why do people get degrees that aren't doctoring and lawyering if working was all about getting money to solve basic life needs?
Simple economy. Supply and demand. Someone has to produce stuff. If there are more doctors and lawyers than anyone else, production rates are low, items get more expensive and, for example, factory jobs get better paid, so more people would go to work on a factory, while lawyers and doctors get less money because there's too many of them.
Also, every human being is different from another. Someone is better in lawyering, someone is better at, say, smithing. Everyone has their own preferences and their own different comfort zone. So people exploit their advantages to solve a problem that is: Basic Needs.
But if you always stay in your comfort zone without any kinds of actions to remain in this zone, you'll never want anything else. Hell, you won't probably even think that there's something interesting.
>>33564948
Yeah as we know welfare states are terrible places to grow up in, man. Almost as bad as communism.
>>33564935
But if robot parents are so widespread, then upgrading them should be relatively cheap. You can just save some money from lunch money or something like that.
>>33564948
Anon, I know you like reducing everything to economics supply and demand, but if that were the case we wouldn't be having a nursing shortage right now.
It's high paying, low on education requirements, and has been persisting for years and years.
There is a large degree of "I want to invent rocket ships" in career choice.
>>33564777
And to think transhumanists had it wrong all along.
All we needed to do was look at pictures, read books and eat right and we would upgrade endlessly. As measured by IQ.
Truly you are the heroes we need.
>>33564985
>relatively cheap
Bitch, you need a JOB to pull of "relatively cheap".
A relatively cheap computer costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And that's just one PART of a robot!
>>33564998
Just sit your low IQ self down and allow them to lead you into a golden age of good health and high education standards, I guess.
>>33560090
Quad science.
>>33565013
>implying an economy with widespread robots would resemble anything we've ever had
>>33560434
People forget that he wrote those laws and then pointed out the flaws in that approach.
>>33565071
Indeed. We're apparently already in the singularity.
>>33565097
>implying people wouldn't become hyperspecialized inventors, artisans, visionaries, and maintenance professionals in said economy
>>33564985
Bullshit. Cars are widespread, you know what a bitch and a half it is to get proper parts for a decade old model?
Nah son, there are other extenuating circumstances, but generally speaking Robot mom and pop aren't be able to handle the upkeep on their own.
Though this brings up the other can of worms about androids in the workplace.
>>33565124
Well, the singularity is nothing magical.
>not using hallucinogens to fold space and time
>not moving to deep desert planets where no machine could possibly survive
>not training humans to develop mind-boggling intellects to counteract machine AI
>not harnessing the full potential of mental and physical discipline as well as vocal manipulation to create the bene gesserit sisterhood
>not having a butlerian Jihad
>not utilizing fremen deathsquad commandos to destroy all in your path
On any other board this would have made for some kind of debate. But here? For shame, OP.
>>33565147
>thinks the spice was a hallucinogen
get out
>>33565195
at the very least it caused olfactory hallucinations, what with making things taste like your favorite spice.
>>33564989
It's also a shitty job with loads of stress, long hours and little to no fulfillment.
Nevermind the fact that who have to make a choice about education are told next to nothing about the market they will end up in, or even what these degrees will mean for them. So yeah, part of that rocket ships reasoning is that there's no clear alternative to that. How do you think Universities drag in people for their degrees? Honesty? Or rocket ship reasoning.
There are loads of people running around thinking "if only I'd known". But of course, everyone tells them "you should have known".
>>33565195
It caused people to perceive things that weren't immediately evident in a sober state, is that not the definition of a hallucinogen?
>>33565287
Are prophecies hallucinations?
>>33563157
This. Spoiled monsters are the result of parents that cave to tantrums and acting out.
>>33564619
>When there is a factor that negates all the needs - human sloth takes over.
>whatrepublicansactuallybelieve.gif
Largely, people prefer to make something of themselves and do something given the opportunity to do so.
>>33565147
>confusing fantasy with science fiction
