Long time no see... Think I found this after I saw your name pop up on one of Peter's posts.
The way technology has advanced is really amazing, although things like self improving mechanisms always scare me a little. I wonder if the robots, provided their "brains" get complex and powerful enough will also develop a consciousness and if they will be able to understand ethics...
Hi @reinhard-schmid,
Great to hear from you, thanks for stopping by!
I think this is where @builderofcastles was going. Humans still spend a lot of time training machines, and while they learn on their own to an extent, working with the unknown is not feasible at this time. Unless there are humans there to guide things, the machine does not really learn much. In those terms, I suppose even ethics could be "taught". So perhaps the scariest question of all is...
Who is training the machines, what are their values, and what do they think like?
Right now, the answer seems to be, "Capitalist Corporations".
You know, companies like Google! Self driving cars and such!