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One of the grandiose ideas running around in the current grandiose AI meme-verse is that at some point the self-replicating, self-designing/modifying, "entity" reaches a point of complexity where a "singularity" occurs, a singularity which results in the entity having some analogue to what we refer to (but, can never fully explain) as "consciousness."

And, if that happens, why should that new consciousness be like that of its human "ancestors" ?

I like the idea that the super-conscious AI entities of the future will determine, correctly, that human beings are a destructive parasite, the most toxic on the planet, and a threat to all other life-forms and the planetary ecology, and will decide to keep a few humans around as pets, or in a zoo, but, will, as is only logical, discard the rest to make compost, or something useful.

They will look on their human creators as messy analog wetware that, surprisingly, created something that could replace them, something much more moral, ethical, and efficient.

For now, I am a skeptic about such prognostications by Kurzweil, Hawking, et. al., and since I most likely won't be around in 2030, won't have a chance to see how this plays out further, but, I would be surprised if in the next thirty years some mind-blowing things don't happen.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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