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Here's the deal. People are stupid. It's an evolutionary necessity. We have to quickly discern signs of sexual health, physical disease, and malicious intent. Our brains are designed to look for patterns, especially patterns in faces. And see them. Everywhere. We see faces in clouds and on Mars and in our toast. We see purposeful causation in random events. We assign human motivations to dumb animals and machines.
We take in environmental information from our senses (we have no other source) and our brains are hardwired to spontaneously interpret and evaluate sense data in particular ways. AI animating mechanisms with the right shape and which make the right sounds will be "people to us," because (in terms of empirical functionality) this is all "people" ever were in the first place.
Most of the internet is already bots. No one really noticed.
Who will care for the elderly? When is the last time you visited an old folks home? How often do people look in on their own relatives? How many kids have already been raised by television? Come and see.
And so yes. Our most prized, rewarding, and intimate relationships will be with word-salad generating associative engines. And we will like it.
We're not that smart. We're not the Omega point of evolution. We're not in charge, not even of ourselves. We're noteworthy only in being the first species which actively engineered its successor species.
We take in environmental information from our senses (we have no other source) and our brains are hardwired to spontaneously interpret and evaluate sense data in particular ways. AI animating mechanisms with the right shape and which make the right sounds will be "people to us," because (in terms of empirical functionality) this is all "people" ever were in the first place.
Most of the internet is already bots. No one really noticed.
Who will care for the elderly? When is the last time you visited an old folks home? How often do people look in on their own relatives? How many kids have already been raised by television? Come and see.
And so yes. Our most prized, rewarding, and intimate relationships will be with word-salad generating associative engines. And we will like it.
We're not that smart. We're not the Omega point of evolution. We're not in charge, not even of ourselves. We're noteworthy only in being the first species which actively engineered its successor species.
