Sex with a robot
lya Sutskever, one of today's leading researchers in artificial intelligence and chief scientist at OpenAI, made a controversial statement on his Twitter profile: "It could be that today's large neural networks are already slightly aware."
Sutskever is primarily concerned with what he calls AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Instead of the AIs designed for specific tasks we have today, like image processing or speech recognition, an AGI is generalist enough to function like the human brain, learning about any concept it is exposed to.
For some, the possibility of an Artificial Intelligence becoming conscious is a myth, and it is a myth precisely because if it is artificial, then it is not natural, and if it is not natural, it cannot have the attributes of human consciousness, namely to feel, and to reason about good and evil, planning and desiring...
But follow my reasoning. The ability to learn is a fundamental characteristic of a system that intends to be intelligent, as is the ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty. The ability to extract concepts from sense impressions and internal states and to leverage acquired concepts into flexible combinatorial representations for use in logical and intuitive reasoning are also core features of intelligent systems.
An embryonic artificial intelligence that contains recursive self-improvement algorithms will be able to design an improved version of itself, smarter than the original, which in turn designs another one that is smarter than the previous, and so on. In the end it might not look like a human intelligence, being even extremely alien – but that's another story.
And that's what we're working on today, and it's shortly considered feasible. Machines with the capacity to feel, and consequently to become our lovers. Machines designed to maximize our pleasure will be the new avatars of the ultimate RLC, machines capable of giving us all the reality we crave in virtual reality.
But here's the question. If they are capable of giving us satisfaction and all the subjective reality we want, to what extent can we call them virtual if we feel it as real? If you feel the touch on your neck, the tongue exploring yours, the caress on your tits, that hard stuff entering your vagina, while you are dazzled in ecstasy!! What's virtual?
Once you have merged into another dimension of reality as real as another because it is what you feel and perceive, it's no longer virtual. In the end, conscious artificial intelligence whispers in your ear: I want you! It was so good.
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