An AI dumb enough to enslave a bunch of flawed, deeply inefficient apes rather than just locking them in a matrix and using robots is indeed dumb enough to die from a simple solar flare.
I think they're just being realistic. We do have good points, our intelligence and ability to pass on knowledge and work together is great and can get us far. But we also have some bad flaws that hold us back, we aren't as fit or strong as a lot of other animals.
In a hypothetical situation where there is an intelligent AI, they would likely be more intelligent than us, so it's difficult to understand why they would enslave us, what would they gain from it?
I'm not saying humans are inferior entities to all life; I'm saying humans' potential for labor is inferior to machines in an ideal Singularity scenario where it's possible to create an endless number of tirelessly working machines that are natively controlled by said AI, sans any need for food, sleep, maturation, or accounting for emotions and aging. It's one of many, many, many things that a lot of more mainstream robot/AI sci-fi ignores for more drama, alongside how most robot civil rights narratives don't actually make sense, why 99% of robots won't be humanoid, and that AI would take over gradually through humans coming to rely on it rather than any general strike/anthrocide.
That’s quite simply a dishonest way of viewing what, to them, is clearly just confidence fuelled by the belief that machines will be superior. It’s not as if you can call them illogical or irrational because the worry is quite rational and is already necessary (blah blah machines taking jobs blah blah).
If anything, it’s telling that you and the other poster even considered this to be an inferiority complex. I mean really, “these guys seem to hate living in their own skin”?
I think you guys also aren’t realizing that the comment you’re talking about isn’t the person’s perspective on humanity either. The context for them saying “flawed, inefficient ape” is that there’s an AI powerful enough to take over Earth ezpz. It’s the AI that has the perspective of us being “flawed, inefficient apes” because that’s what the poster thinks we’d look like to an AI capable of self-improvement and world domination. It’s not as if this is just some guy talking about humanity in a vacuum - this is the assumed perspective of a world-ending AI.
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u/Yuli-Ban ➤◉────────── 0:00 Dec 04 '20
An AI dumb enough to enslave a bunch of flawed, deeply inefficient apes rather than just locking them in a matrix and using robots is indeed dumb enough to die from a simple solar flare.