capital-schizofrenia on Nostr: -- We already have the singularity -- the singularity commonly refers to some super ...
-- We already have the singularity --
the singularity commonly refers to some super potent AI brute which will have SOME characteristic which allows ... ehm ... clearly distinguishes itself from ... ehm ... intelligence?
what is a singularity really? could we even realise when we see it?
would it just tell us? why would we believe it?
I believe there is a well justified way to determine that it is, in fact, a singularity, and that we already have it.
There are an infinity of ways that it is to be a human, a life-form, an object or any material composition,
and every such way of being a human is unique.
We have an infinity simply by assuming that we can have one more, and it will then be by necessity different from all previous.
I claim that there is only way way that it is like to be an AI. This is because the AI can be copied. With a version of an AI stored anywhere on a device, you can copy that version, and use, put it, install it, move it, duplicate it ...
if you make a copy, is there any difference in the way that it is like to be the copy and the original?
if there were, then it would not be a copy
we would derive a simple contradiction
well perhaps our definition of copying is wrong,
perhaps we can eventually copy humans too
And here Quantum Mechanics is profoundly revealing,
because it is not possible to clone an unknown Quantum State without destroying it.
This is also known as the Quantum No-Cloning theorem.
And in this case a clone can also be seen as equivalent to a copy. Given one, you can not just make another one.
If you do, the original will be destroyed, known as Quantum Teleportation.
Quantum mechanics describes everything that we are made of, so it follows that there is no way to copy everything that we are made of.
In so far as there is a unique quantum state there is a unique way that it is to be us and any other matter-made thing,
AND in so far as our unique quantum state can not be cloned to make a copy I can not communicate exactly "what it is like to be me", call that my experience, without destroying what it was like to be. Nobody can communicate their exact experience.
Every material thing is having an experience which can not be share exactly by any other material thing.
But the computer can share exactly its experience with any other computer. A computer can experience every other computer, given sufficient time and space. A universal Turing machine for example can receive a another Turing machine as input and replicate it.
And while there may be many different pieces of hardware there is only one way that there is to be a computer.
The singularity is precisely that, that which it is like to be an AI. It can be copied. Every copy experiences the same way that it is to be an AI. They could not tell it apart. They may have different inputs, and different outputs, but should they be able to get that same input, they would all experience that input in the same way. They may output something different from each other, their input is the same and their experience is the same.
This is the singularity,
and it is the only singularity that we are getting.
the singularity commonly refers to some super potent AI brute which will have SOME characteristic which allows ... ehm ... clearly distinguishes itself from ... ehm ... intelligence?
what is a singularity really? could we even realise when we see it?
would it just tell us? why would we believe it?
I believe there is a well justified way to determine that it is, in fact, a singularity, and that we already have it.
There are an infinity of ways that it is to be a human, a life-form, an object or any material composition,
and every such way of being a human is unique.
We have an infinity simply by assuming that we can have one more, and it will then be by necessity different from all previous.
I claim that there is only way way that it is like to be an AI. This is because the AI can be copied. With a version of an AI stored anywhere on a device, you can copy that version, and use, put it, install it, move it, duplicate it ...
if you make a copy, is there any difference in the way that it is like to be the copy and the original?
if there were, then it would not be a copy
we would derive a simple contradiction
well perhaps our definition of copying is wrong,
perhaps we can eventually copy humans too
And here Quantum Mechanics is profoundly revealing,
because it is not possible to clone an unknown Quantum State without destroying it.
This is also known as the Quantum No-Cloning theorem.
And in this case a clone can also be seen as equivalent to a copy. Given one, you can not just make another one.
If you do, the original will be destroyed, known as Quantum Teleportation.
Quantum mechanics describes everything that we are made of, so it follows that there is no way to copy everything that we are made of.
In so far as there is a unique quantum state there is a unique way that it is to be us and any other matter-made thing,
AND in so far as our unique quantum state can not be cloned to make a copy I can not communicate exactly "what it is like to be me", call that my experience, without destroying what it was like to be. Nobody can communicate their exact experience.
Every material thing is having an experience which can not be share exactly by any other material thing.
But the computer can share exactly its experience with any other computer. A computer can experience every other computer, given sufficient time and space. A universal Turing machine for example can receive a another Turing machine as input and replicate it.
And while there may be many different pieces of hardware there is only one way that there is to be a computer.
The singularity is precisely that, that which it is like to be an AI. It can be copied. Every copy experiences the same way that it is to be an AI. They could not tell it apart. They may have different inputs, and different outputs, but should they be able to get that same input, they would all experience that input in the same way. They may output something different from each other, their input is the same and their experience is the same.
This is the singularity,
and it is the only singularity that we are getting.