I think that maybe the pipe dream of many AI researchers and sci-fi enthusiasts is best characterized as a hope for any kind of general intelligence, and artificial ones merely offer the most plausible path to that by their estimation. Hard to say what one would even look like.
This is a good analogy: it stems from ignorance of the broader context in which the mind exists, and a lack of imagination.https://twitter.com/hugoamnov/status/1120851044785971200 …
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And that the context itself can be considered part of the mind
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I think he meant the *idea* that humans are super-special (akin to the notion of the Earth being the absolute centre of the Universe) stems from a lack of imagination.
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The fact that different creatures (dogs, apes) have some parts but not all of ‘our’ general intelligence implies that an alien life form could do its own tests on us and find out what we have and what we lack. We are to ET as dogs are to us - just more points on a scatter.
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It is correct that the human brain is on the animal spectrum -- it has not suddenly shifted to an entirely different category of "generally intelligent beings" after a few mutations. It's still a point on the scatter plot -- it is specialized, with a degree of generality.
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The idea that "human level" AI is exactly the point at which an intelligence explosion will take place is the most extreme version of this.
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Devil's advocate here, but isn't human intelligence a clear outlier from all the other intelligences we know of? Presumably there must be a set of factors (or enabling techniques, e.g. communication) which allow a sort of intelligence boom.
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I’m getting sick of this. Just because you want to differentiate yourself, doesn’t mean you should be pedantic. If you want people to be impressed, stop with tautological philosophy that doesn’t make a difference, one way or another.
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When we look for markers of life amongst the stars, we search for those similar to our own. Is it because we can be the only type? No. It’s because we’re the only known type available.
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