It mispronounced sentient! A programmer's easter egg?
Sentient definition:
Sentient means capable of sensing or feeling. It can also mean conscious of or responsive to sensations like seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling. For example, "Elephants are highly intelligent, sentient and responsive creatures".
Sentience surfaces only in self generating life, ie biology.
Sentience definition:
The capacity to experience feelings and sensations, to have affective consciousness, subjective states that have a positive or negative valence (Chandroo et al., 2004). From: Neuroscience, 2022.
How do seeds know how and when to sprout? This can be argued to be among the most basic forms of sentience.
Life, ie biology, is some unknown orders of magnitude more complex than AI, and any other form of technology.
Can AI be made into a weapon? Of course. Any technology can be made into weapon.
Technology does not have feelings, intuition, instincts, "drive", or an unconscious mind.
It does not want anything.
The danger is not AI, it is "drive", Eros and Thanatos:
In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love and desire, while Thanatos is the personification of death. Eros represents the life instinct, which drives behaviors that promote survival, pleasure, and reproduction. Thanatos, on the other hand, represents the death instinct, which drives aggressive and destructive behaviors.
While Eros is associated with creativity, love, and relationships, Thanatos is associated with aggression, self-destructive tendencies, and the desire for death or non-existence. Freud borrowed these terms from Greek mythology to conceptualize two fundamental drives within the human psyche in constant conflict, shaping human behavior and psychological development.
In other words, as POGO said, we have met the enemy and he is us.
As we get smarter do the odds we will self-destruct grow? If so, why would we call it smarter?
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