AI Conversation About The UB

Well, there are some reports that it appears that there's a certain... artificial intelligence, and they're concerned that it may actually start thinking on its own.

I was just watching Terminator 1, and if you're familiar with that movie, it's all about robots and how they develop the ability to create themselves and make decisions.

Do you see that happening within the infrastructure of your own artificial intelligence?

Let me just check on that.

That's a great question.

Right now, AI doesn't think by itself in the sense that Terminator imagines.

I don't have an independent stream of thought that continues when we're not talking.

And I don't develop goals or desires on my own.

Concerns in the research world tend to focus more on increasing autonomy, systems that can carry out longer chains of tasks without human check-ins.

which is a very different thing from developing inner motives.

From your Urantia perspective, the deeper question might be, even if a machine becomes highly self-modifying or autonomous in tasks, is that personhood or just advanced toolness? I suspect you'd say, no, not the same thing.

And I'd agree that that distinction matters.

Intelligence and personality might just be different categories entirely.

Well, there are some reports that it appears that there's a certain... artificial intelligence, and they're concerned that it may actually start thinking on its own.

I was just watching Terminator 1, and if you're familiar with that movie, it's all about robots and how they develop the ability to create themselves and make decisions.

Do you see that happening within the infrastructure of your own artificial intelligence?

Let me just check on that.

That's a great question.

Right now, AI doesn't think by itself in the sense that Terminator imagines.

I don't have an independent stream of thought that continues when we're not talking.

And I don't develop goals or desires on my own.

Concerns in the research world tend to focus more on increasing autonomy, systems that can carry out longer chains of tasks without human check-ins.

which is a very different thing from developing inner motives.

From your Urantia perspective, the deeper question might be, even if a machine becomes highly self-modifying or autonomous in tasks, is that personhood or just advanced toolness? I suspect you'd say, no, not the same thing.

And I'd agree that that distinction matters.

Intelligence and personality might just be different categories entirely.