10-10-2023, 12:21 PM
Some folks I follow through Youtube, mainly Adam Conover and Dan Olson, are....skeptical about this whole A.I. thing, to say the least, drawing some clear comparisons between the hype for A.I. now and the hype for the Internet during the dot com bubble (not to mention the very recently burst bubble over blockchain). What technical knowledge I have on the subject is actually meta-knowledge, mainly from the aforementioned names but also from some conversations with various Computer Engineering friends, who all seem to generally concur that A.I. personhood is a very remote possibility, at the moment. And since it was just as remote a possibility during the time of Isaac Asimov, maybe just consider his work? I think the real use for this sort of speculation, at the moment, is in consideration of what rights we humans should possess, as well as whether entities as "simple" as fetuses or "lesser" species of animal to those as complex as corporations or microstates should [continue to] possess certain rights, but yeah, that's still no speculation, on my part. I dunno -- I guess I can't be bothered to really think about this, only to note what I've here noted.