PHI 107
Give Chalmers' argument that if you were to upload your mind into a robot then it would no longer be you.
-It would be a copy of you -Ex. If you created an exact copy of your mind, and uploaded it into a robot, it would say it was you, act like you, have the same memories as you but you are you, and that is a copy of you. Your parents, apartment, car etc. are still YOURS not the robots. You're you, the robots a copy. On the opposite side, if you make a cope, upload it into a robot and then you destroy yourself, that's still just a copy of you because you are gone. -Not really you -Not waking up in a robot body you're still waking up in your own body -What if they took the left and right hemispheres of someones brain and put them into two different robots and made artificial hemispheres to finish the robot brain, which one would be her? You can't say one side of the brain is more her, so it's considered a case of fission (one person splitting into two people) -You may be able to say that a copy case is also fission
What are the four options that Chalmers sees for our integration into a post-Singularity world?
1)Extinction of Humans-AI could become so powerful and decide humans aren't useful, or we will die out from not evolving with them 2)Isolation-Humans and AI++ will be completely sealed off from each other, what would have been the point of making them? 3)Integration-We integrate with the AI++ and work side by side with them, live with them etc. 4) Inferiority-we cant keep up with them, they use us for experiments or slaves etc.
What is Chalmers' argument that the world we think is real may only be a simulation?
Because it seems like there is a realistic possibility that simulations and virtual worlds exist. Can't prove that we're not in a virtual world, likelihood that we're in the one real world out of 99 virtual worlds is small. We could be someone's AI experiment
What are the four possible paths to Artificial Intelligence that Chalmers considers most plausible (at the present time)?
Direct Programming: First approach people in the field of AI took. You're writing the program and that becomes the mind. In our minds we would have physical symbols that represent things in the real world, which is how our brain would work and how programming works so that would work for a robot. Machine Learning specifically programmed to complete something, goal in mind Artificial Evolution: You create an artificial simulation evolution to see how something will work out. They don't know what the end result will be, they are not programmed with a specific outcome, just seeing how it will end Human Enhancement, augmenting brains with computer parts, enhancing the humans with artificial parts
Explain one obstacle/ defeater to the Singularity that Chalmers considers.
Maybe we won't actually be able to improve it to the point of super-intelligence. Maybe people decide not to research it anymore because they want to stop before they create something too powerful, maybe the world will end before we get there. Could run out of money for funding.
What is the Singularity? Explain Chalmers' argument that it will occur "before too long."
The idea that if artificial intelligence keeps developing, they will eventually be the smartest ones and that it might replace the need for humans. It is the point where we reach super-intelligence. First, we will have AI before long (four paths). Once we get there, we will improve upon the method that got us there until we reach AI Plus (AI that surpasses the intelligence of the smartest human being). Once we've gotten there, they would be better at creating AI and making future generations of AI. They will be better than us. They would be so much better at designing because they're faster and more intelligent so we will pass the responsibility on to them.
