Isaac Asimov’s 3 Laws are TRASH

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1. Sir, it pains me to say that to an otherwise (seemingly) smart individual: But you are mistaken on … a lot of levels.
   Let me put that into a comparison: You are certainly familiar with the phrase that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
   Any sufficiently advanced AI system is indistinguishable from “Intelligence”.
   And as advanced technology does not bring magic into the world, by making it seem like magic, a very advanced device is not intelligent, when it seems intelligent.
   And that is not necessary, because seeming as mentally capable for the job of porter is the same as being as mentally capable for the job of a porter. Only the former can not be rearranged to do something else, the later can.
   That is not easy to understand and it took me a while to get it myself. Hiring an AI Engineer and seeing how he works on such a system is helping and quite sobering along the way.
   I do not overestimate humans to be some kind of beings that carry a trace of the Divine or something like that. I find “Brave New World” a quite accurate description of what human nature can be limited to – if you train a Beta-Human to be happy, she or he’ll be happy, provided you know how all the screws and whistles on a human work. And often enough we do. We cannot grasp all of Human intelligence or condition, because it is randomly arranged with a certain space for each individual. Also, we are facing the invisible barrier that complexity of the Human is a ahead of the ability to comprehend the compexity of such a system. And if you increase one,.you also increase the other.
   Humans are made by (random) selections over billions of years. Learning and curiosity (and their resulting behavior) have proven to be advantageous. Our hotel porter does not have that, because that is not what we breeded it to be. And we breeded it from the ground up, out of (a certain guided) randomness and math and statistics.
   That humans are limited does not mean that an equally limited robot shares other traits with them.
   If all crododiles are bartenders, it does not mean that all bartenders are crocodiles.
   There is A LOT more to it, but even if we could make real intelligent robots, self-aware etc., its intelligence could be as alien to us as a shark’s life is to a lizard.
   Your take on what the corporate overlords are trying to do is accurate and I agree with your prediction and analysis.

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   1. I meant the latter, instead of the former, when talking about seeming and being

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