Artificial intelligence operating on an artificial neural network doesn't work like a programmed device. Therefore, it is not entirely known what her improvement line will look like. How, then, can we communicate with an unconscious "technology" that transcends the possible of cognition and the velocity of applications of solutions, which additionally – due to the very fast process of technicalization of our lives – has very easy access to us? – Father Michał Ziółkowski MI (Kamilian), PhD in philosophical sciences, associate of the technological Tomistic Society, expert in bioethics, investigator of artificial intelligence ethics, in conversation with Piotr Relich.
What are the prospects for artificial intelligence?
To answer that question, 1 must first consider what the concept of “artificial intelligence” means. Alan Turing's definition says: Artificial intelligence is the ability of a device to imitate or imitate human intelligence.
The device achieves this ability by implementing the appropriate software. Today, artificial intelligence is defined as an information strategy that, first, allows for tasks requiring learning; secondly, it takes into account fresh circumstances in the course of solving a given problem; thirdly, it can act autonomously and, fourthly, interact with the environment.
It should be noted, however, that under doctrine the concept of artificial intelligence is abstract. It takes distant the thought of intelligence, head and cognition from circumstantial biological and cultural circumstances. This does not change the fact that the work on creating the digital simulation of the human brain is very advanced.
Today, however, we decision distant from knowing artificial intelligence as a computing device for much broader visions.
Today it is moving towards the creation of artificial neural networks (artificial intelligence "excursions" from interactions between information processors). Artificial neuron doesn't gotta mimic human nerve cells exactly. It's crucial that he act like her or even more efficiently.
Moreover, the artificial neural network model does not function only on a human-programmed information base, but is characterised, for example, by a process of self-learning, not only by independent learning, but besides by self-assessment and choice of solutions.
So, artificial intelligence operating on an artificial neural network doesn't work like a programmed device. Therefore, it is not entirely known what her improvement line will look like. Although the neuron network performs certain thought operations, there is an infinity of this process, which is manifested even by the inactive developing creative aspect. In the position of hypothesis infinite process It is so hard to foretell what future possibilities this computer program called artificial intelligence will have.
Can we say that at any phase artificial intelligence will scope self-consciousness? How Real It Is to Fulfill a imagination From Works science fictionIn which people environment a thinking, conscious machine?
A vast majority of technological authorities (including specialists in medical computing) believe that consciousness manifests itself in highly organized organic structures that produce biological evolution. However, supporters of artificial consciousness explanation – among which there are many representatives of the ideology of transhumanism – mistakenly ignore its ontical unity with biological life.
Even the tremendous memory capacity of the computer, which would radically exceed the ability of human nerve tissue, will not origin artificial consciousness.
In this case, the right to control quantities to quality does not work. It is so essential to separate between artificial intelligence, which can simulate and reproduce certain human cognitive processes (and the amount of data transfer far outweighs the capacity of man's brain) and consciousness, which is inseparably linked to the phenomenon of biological life. Without consciousness there will not be a phenomenon of self-awareness, which as self-knowledge is the basis of its own separateness and the foundation of actual subjectivity. Thus, even the most perfect productions of technology cannot be attributed to self-consciousness.
But possibly artificial intelligence doesn't should be self-conscious. Is it adequate to make him look like a man?
If the threat to humanity, resulting from the improvement of artificial intelligence, was limited to the anticipation of being "acquired" by it, we could alternatively sleep peacefully. The problem seems a small different, and I don't think it's about the degree to which artificial intelligence resembles man, but the opposite. This can be argued by a very simple example.
Hypothetically, human genetic manipulation (for example, CRISPR-Cas9) would make a certain unconscious species of predatory transgenic animals, which, for example, would have the ability to continuously increase muscle mass and thus besides its strength.
Will specified a proliferation of possible only quantitatively (if consciousness is simply a qualitative change) not be a threat to humanity?
What would happen if specified individuals got out of control and began reproduction? How can we communicate with an unconscious beast that is guided by the transgenic chaotic impulses we know?
Similarly: how to communicate with an unconscious "technology" that transcends the possible of cognition and the velocity of application of solutions, which additionally – due to the very fast process of technicalization of our lives – has very easy access to us?
So it's definitely going to get ugly...?
We will most likely shortly be locked in a cage of specified technobestia, although we are not yet aware of it. Of course, a mistake is the direct transfer of phenomena in the field of biology to the level of electronic systems. However, in the same way, man as a biological being is not able to full imagine what character the alleged non-biological intelligence has.
What does it mean to be super-intelligent and not have self-consciousness, and yet to act effectively? Is consciousness just a feature of human psyche? After all, 1 of the most primal manifestations of self-consciousness is the defence of biological integrity against the external threat – confirmed even in the most primitive, unconscious organisms.
What happens if unconscious artificial intelligence starts operating at the level of the most basic self-preservation mode and uses all its possible to defend its own priorities? And what are the priorities? It is so a mistake to say that as conscious people we will always easy control it. Experts emphasize that the top danger lies primarily in differences between human goals and artificial intelligence.
However, transhumanist environments are convinced that, among another things, through the improvement of artificial intelligence, we will deceive death. How?
The alleged cryopreservation techniques are a peculiar manifestation of the doctrine of transhumanism. The United States was the first country to introduce as a commercial service the method of freezing and storing human and animal bodies at liquid nitrogen temperatures. In 1976, prominent American scientist Robert Ettinger founded the Institute of Cryonics and the closely related Immortalist Society.
The only competitive centre for this institute is the Russian KrioRus Institute founded in 2005, founded by members of the Russian Transhumanist Movement specified as Danila Medwiedev or Waleria Wiradev.
In addition to the highly costly process of freezing the full body, cryonics institutes offer a more economical version of freezing the brain itself. According to transhumanist simplification anthropology, what is most essential about man is the recording of data of neuronal activity of the organic brain. Therefore, hibernated brains are waiting for a technological breakthrough – possibly for the emergence of a technological singularity – erstwhile it is possible to revitalize the full individual to whom the frozen organ belonged.
According to this theory, the transfer of brain writing to another basis is intended to let the full individual to be transferred, either to a fresh cloned body or to a digital version of the brain. The second is related to the explanation of alleged head transfer (mind uploading), i.e. "the transition" to cyberspace, which would besides warrant the accomplishment of alleged cyberimmortalism.
Once again, however, we are confronted with a deficiency of technological verification of these theories, or even with their complete negation, for example from scientists who survey the tense strategy or consciousness. In this case, it seems that there is only a key of a alternatively crypto-religious character, according to which the meaning of these irrational transhumanist projects should be understood.
Is it possible to transfer the head to non-biological media? Like the advent of the Technological singularity or the existence of man only in the form of a collection of information?
When it comes to intellectual transfer, the problem is the identity of the person. According to transhumanists, functioning in the brain and imported into the information code the intangible patterns of neuronal activity find the person's existence. It is so crucial to ask whether, together with the separation from the body of these intangible patterns, the identity of a individual can be transferred to a fresh medium.
According to psychophysiologists, it is the experience of your body that is the experience of your own “self” – that is, alongside memory, 1 of the most crucial criteria of identity. It is so not possible to transfer to another identity average of a given individual as a bundle of information free from association with its own body.
However, transhumanists believe that after the expected transfer of head the fresh environment of life would be the "informatic universe" identical to the expansional existence of super intelligence. Thus understood the eventual dominance of artificial intelligence is connected with the advent of the alleged technological singularity, that is, the state of technological improvement in which the possible of artificial intelligence exceeds the intellectual capabilities of the full human race.
The Postman would then be a posttransferal being completely free of the biological dimension, for which the only material basis would be an all-encompassing and self-improvement super intelligence system. It is so hard to give circumstantial specifications of the post-human.
Postman – that sounds small Christian...
Absolutely. But let us begin with an outstanding Christian thinker – Saint Thomas of Aquinas, who described the nature of the bodyless superintelligent angels. However, Akvinata based his strategy on the unchanging truths revealed by the Divine Logos, recorded in the Christian Bible. And transhumanist methodology is completely different.
Transhumanists compose their own "bibl", adapting to their ideology data flowing from the creators of the latest technology. It shows that the technology created by humans is to uncover the eventual fact about the post-human and about the "new Logos" that would be present in the advent of the Technology singularity.
Since the Divine Logos present in the Christian doctrine took the form of man through incarnation, and the measurement of the perfection of the post-man is to be his de-semination, thus the Technological singularity deserves the name Anti-Logos, whose intent is not salvation, but demolition of man.
From what sources does transhumanism come, from what ideas?
It is worth asking: why do transhumanists claiming to be a modern technological and technological avant-garde do not retreat from many irrational ones too? Philosophical analysis of this technocentric current frequently ignores the futuristic subject of intellectual transfer, as many believe it makes transhumanism so absurd that it is ridiculous and unworthy of serious treatment. And this is simply a serious mistake, due to the fact that it is the transfer of the head that reveals many truths about transhumanism.
Transhumanism is not a technological dreamer or sophisticated futuristic anthropological vision, but a typical of an increasingly powerful global trend, the essence of which appears to be an effort to implement modern culture – increasingly aiming at the form of technocultural monolith – to the scheme quasi- Religious. Therefore, the evaluation of many transhumanist projects, which, from the point of view of natural sciences, sometimes even endanger with ideological irrationalism, should be made from a completely different perspective.
How, then, can transhumanism be understood?
In order to realize transhumanism, the matrix of the intellectual nature of modernity should be applied to it. Today, anti-Christian gnosticism is reborn. The very core of transhumanism seems to be the thread of gnostic enlightenment, the consequence of which is the discovery of the anticipation of getting out of the yoke of the "presumptive" law of nature by means of the latest technologies and achieving the condition of a bodyless perfect existence.
It is irrational Gnostic doctrine that gives this frequently amazing form to transhumanist technological projects. This is not a technique, but a "technology" is simply a origin of transhumanist inspiration, as it is to enable "technologytranscendence" leading to the accomplishment of "technology" and the condition of a posthuman "god".
I will quote Ada Florentina Pawlak, 1 of the co-founders of the Polish Transhumanist Association: Transhumanism, a large metaphysical task of the 21st century, is simply a modern version of Gnostic beliefs. With gnosy he is linked by his reluctance to embody, his desire to escape from the material “wet body” and his imagination of immortal life in the cyberworld (...). The ideas of the movement are inspired by old Gnostic myths.
In transhumanism, the echoes of Luciferan concepts besides resonate...
– In order not to be blunt, it is best to scope for what transhumanists themselves say about themselves. It is worth referring to the text by 1 of the most crucial transhumanist thinkers, Max More, director-general of the cryopreservation institute of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation – a man who is attributed to the creation of modern definitions and principles of transhumanism, author of many works on "morphological freedom".
This text, first sold in 1989 by the Libertarian Alliance, is named In Press of the Devil (For the glory of the devil). This is Lucifer's apology, or more specifically, his promethean attitude.
Satan was shown in an highly affirmative way as encouraging man to self-development, in contrast, according to classical gnostic schemes, to the oppressive evil God of Jehovah limiting man's freedom.
Devil, Lucifer is simply a force of good ... He's an expert in helping us be rational. It shows us how to usage our intelligence and how to take work for ourselves. ... Hail Lucifer! Praise the pursuit of fact through rationality. ... Join me, join Lucifer and join Extropy in fighting God and his entropy forces – writes the leading transhumanist thinker.
Another celebrated transhumanist, Raymond Kurzweil, author of the transhumanist bible, or celebrated compendium entitled The singleity is near. erstwhile humans transcend biology (Here comes the singularity. erstwhile a man crosses the limits of biology) – stresses the request to make a fresh religion.
Hence, what religion should we ask? possibly the 1 who has been called prometeism and is defined by the authoritative religion of transhumanism.
It is worth noting that the followers of prometeism besides have their “patrons”. On their website, they mention Lucifer, who as a prometean liberator brings divine light to the human mind, a chimera meaning the control of man over nature, and ouroboros, or gnostic and alchemic symbol of immortality, showing a snake devouring its own tail. Nothing to add, nothing to say.
Thank you for talking to me.
The singularity of transhumanism
The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in the future erstwhile technological improvement gets out of control and at the same time becomes irreversible, resulting in unpredictable changes in human civilization. The imagination of the imminent advent of the human race being mastered by machines led by artificial intelligence or biological intelligence transplanted to non-biological media moved from the sphere of literature and movie science fiction to a serious (?) technological debate (?).
Transhumanism (transitus humani – exceeding what is human) is the contemporary cultural-intellectual trend, whose fundamental thesis proclaims the anticipation of exceeding biology by means of increasingly extremist interference in the natural condition of man, with the engagement of the latest technologies utilized and dynamically developed in fields specified as genetics, neuroengineering, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology.
A characteristic feature of transhumanism is the strong ideology of the above teachings, frequently subjecting them to irrational quasi- spiritual schemes.
The technological peculiarity prophets foretell that if the work on the creation of artificial intelligence progresses at specified a staggering rate as before, its time will come by the mediate of this century.
For example, Ray Kurzweil – an American computer scientist and futurologist, a passionate proponent of transhumanism, author of the book The alien Coming. He knows the absolute inevitability of this process: ‘Terminator’ is not impossible. I think it symbolizes the bad side of artificial intelligence. But technology mostly has many bad sides. But it would be much worse not to go that way..
