Just finished watching the second season of "Western World". The entire timeline was cut into chaos, and it seemed to be unnecessary.
I don't know if "Free Will" is the theme of "Western World", but it is at least one of the themes.
The first season sums it up: a host can also have free will.
The second season sums it up: mankind actually has no free will. Not only isn't it, and people are terribly simple, a book that is not thick can hold. It is almost said that it will only be conditioned.
This means that, given an input, there will be a definite output.
I don't know if the screenwriter has watched Sabesky's "Behavior", anyway, and the argument of "Behavior" is still very close: man is a machine and man has no free will. But a very fascinating point of "Behavior" is that giving an input does give an output, but the process itself will change the system hardware, so that the input and output will be different later. The brain is plastic.
Sounds like ... it's almost like machine learning. The process of training the model. Of course, machine learning-based artificial intelligence now seems to be only weak artificial intelligence, and it will never reach the stage of human-defined strong artificial intelligence.
So, who is training humans?
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originally posted in Chinese on 2019-11-23 at https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzU1ODg0MDk4NQ==&mid=2247483951&idx=1&sn=e798a0d6932116c2a0a74547e6554aa1&chksm=fc212fd9cb56a6cf14b9dee1a2f6c626c5ab5e8820385582e42398ac4f7492c71b26f0b3a173&token=723186731&lang=zh_CN#rd
刚把《西部世界》第二季看完了。整个时间线被剪切得很乱，花里胡哨地，感觉没什么必要。
不知道「自由意志」是不是《西部世界》的主题，但至少是主题之一。
第一季概括起来就是：人造人（host）也可以有自由意志。
第二季概括起来就是：人（mankind）其实没有自由意志。非但没有，而且人简单得可怕，一本书不厚的书就装得下。就差没说只会条件反射了。
意味着，给一个输入，就会有确定的输出。
不知道编剧是不是看过萨博斯基的《行为》，反正和《行为》的论点还是很接近的：人就是机器，人没有自由意志。但是《行为》有一个很迷人的点在于：给一个输入确实就会给一个输出，但是这个过程本身会改变系统硬件，从而到后来输入和输出又不一样了。大脑是可塑的。
听起来……简直就像是机器学习。训练模型的过程。当然，基于机器学习的人工智能现在看起来只能是弱人工智能，永远达不到人类定义的强人工智能的阶段。
所以，是谁在训练人类？