Can you explain how a seed germinates? I don't mean adding water and sunlight. I mean what is inside the seed that makes it start to grow into an entity. No one can. No one completely understands how and why. The same is true of AI.
I never thought about that until reading Magnifica Humanitas. The terminology used in paragraph 98, is cultivated. AI is not built; it is more like a seed that has been watered and put in the sun. The computer designers and software and hardware designers create a framework within which the intelligence works. It is like the sun and water on the seed. The seed blossoms into something. The designers try this and that until the right combination gels, and it blossoms into something. How and why? Presently, no one knows.
Hold on!
Exactly. More research, more understanding needs to be done, before full permission is given to just plunge forward. Remember the movie, Hal 9000. The problem is that the humans trust, depend, and follow the computer HAL. HAL is the authority over the humans. The movie is a cautionary story.
HAL 9000 at a Glance#
| Designation | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | HAL 9000: Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer |
| First appearance | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), film and novel developed in parallel by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke |
| Activation | 12 January 1992 at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois (the film’s date; the novel says 1997) |
| Function | Governing intelligence of Discovery One: navigation, communications, diagnostics, life support |
| Voice | Douglas Rain, who returned for 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) |
| Confirmed kills | Frank Poole and the three hibernating crew members of Discovery One |
| Cultural standing | Ranked the 13th greatest film villain of all time by the American Film Institute, the highest placed non-human on the list |
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